Question

Read the excerpt from The Little Foxes.REGINA. (to BEN) Horace would like to talk to you now.HORACE. Horace would not like to talk to you now. I am very tired, Regina—REGINA. (comes to him) Please. You’ve said we’ll try our best with each other. I’ll try. Really, I will. Please do this for me now. You will see what I’ve done while you’ve been away. How I watched your interests. (Laughs gaily) And I’ve done very well too. But things can’t be delayed any longer. Everything must be settled this week— (HORACE sits down. BEN enters. OSCAR has stayed in the dining room, his head turned to watch them. LEO is pretending to read the newspaper) Now you must tell Horace all about it. Only be quick because he is very tired and must go to bed. (HORACE is looking up at her. His face hardens as she speaks) But I think your news will be better for him than all the medicine in the world. BEN. (looking at HORACE) It could wait. Horace may not feel like talking today. REGINA. What an old faker you are! You know it can’t wait. You know it must be finished this week. You’ve been just as anxious for Horace to get here as I’ve been.What does this excerpt emphasize about the character of Regina?her dismissive attitude toward her husbandher anger toward her husband about his past decisionsher desire to be a traditional wife for her husbandher innate belief that she is inferior to her husbandMark this and return

Answer 1

her dismissive attitude toward her husband

Step-by-step explanation:

In the excerpt Regina continuously dismisses the idea that her husband is too tired to hear Ben's news. Both Horace and Ben tell her that Horace is tired and that whatever the news is it can wait. However, Regina keeps dismissing them. She insists that it be now and that everything must be settled this week. The passage does not show her feelings about any past decisions Horace has made. It also does not show an innate belief that she is inferior or a desire to be a traditional wife.