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Read the final paragraph of Nellie Bly's essay "As a White Slave: Her Experience in the Role of a New York Shop-Girl Making Paper Boxes." The work was tiresome, and after I had learned all I could from the rather reticent girls I was anxious to leave. I noticed some rather peculiar things on my trip to and from the factory. I noticed that men were much quicker to offer their places to the working-girls on the cars than they were to offer them to well-dressed women. Another thing quite as noticeable, I had more men try to get up a flirtation with me while I was a box-factory girl than I ever had before. The girls were nice in their manners and as polite as ones reared at home. They never forgot to thank one another for the slightest service, and there was quite a little air of "good form" in many of their actions. I have seen many worse girls in much higher positions than the white slaves of New York. Which of these is revealed about the author of this paragraph? She has little respect for women. She was wealthy. She enjoyed her work at the factory. She was a social advocate.

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D,) Social Advocate!

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This paragraph reveals that the author was wealthy, as she did not experience any of the said events before. Her description of the work that she had to do and the commute that she had to take is reflecting a reaction of a person who was experiencing and observing all of it for the first time. She was never a white slave before.
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