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Read these lines: "This wallpaper has a kind of sub-pattern in a different shade, a particularly irritating one, for you can only see it in certain lights, and not clearly then. But in the places where it is not faded, and where the sun is just so, I can see a strange, provoking, formless sort of figure, that seems to sulk about behind that silly and conspicuous front design." How is her account of the wall changing?

AShe now describes a shape with a will of its own
BShe now finds the colour pleasant to look at
CShe now measures the pattern very carefully
DShe now says the wall is bare of any design
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. She now describes a shape with a will of its own
1. 1. Earlier the wall is described by its colour and its lines, that is, as a design. 2. 2. Here a second shade becomes a figure, and the figure is said to sulk about behind the front design. 3. 3. To sulk is something only a creature does, so the wall has begun to be described as if it held a living thing. 4. 4. She still calls the colour and design irritating and silly, so option B is wrong, and she measures nothing here. _Source: The Yellow Wall Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1892)_
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