Question

Read the excerpt from "The Lady Maid's Bell."

But that wasn’t the only queer thing in the house. The very next day I found out that Mrs. Brympton had no nurse; and then I asked Agnes about the woman I had seen in the passage the afternoon before. Agnes said she had seen no one, and I saw that she thought I was dreaming. To be sure, it was dusk when we went down the passage, and she had excused herself for not bringing a light; but I had seen the woman plain enough to know her again if we should meet. I decided that she must have been a friend of the cook’s, or of one of the other women servants: perhaps she had come down from town for a night’s visit, and the servants wanted it kept secret. Some ladies are very stiff about having their servants’ friends in the house overnight. At any rate, I made up my mind to ask no more questions.
Which statement describes a gothic element in this excerpt that reflects a social attitude of Wharton’s time?
The narrator feels inadequate when she reports seeing a supernatural being and nobody believes her.
The narrator feels like she lacks control of her own fate when her superiors refuse to answer her questions.
The narrator is dismissed by her superiors when she asks questions about an occurrence that may have been supernatural.
The narrator fears that she may be doomed when she witnesses a strange woman walking around the home.

Answer 1

it is b because it is explaining on what she lacks and what she would lose.
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Answer 2

The correct answer is: The narrator feels inadequate when she reports seeing a supernatural being and nobody believes her.

Alice tries to find an explanation of what she witnessed before, but nobody is willing to participate in giving her one or to fully explain her the whole situation as she is new and not worthy of knowing everything yet. Wharton tries to portray the reality of the era she lived in, known as the Gilded Age, a period of time when the problems were disguised or covered by the societal practices happening in the privileged circles. Her writing has been considered as gothic but is more a representation of a psychological approach to horror during the 20th century. In these stories, the author shows her own fears and feelings from her early experiences with supernatural situations, but never fully understood the unconscious implications those memories had on the fact of adding ghosts to her writing.