Q13

[giladedelman]

Please see the attached pdf for the solution.

[perng.yan]

ack.. this passage turned out to be the HARDERST for me.. getting only 4/7 accuracy.

#13. How can we infer that author A would agree with author B about (E)??? the "thing not told" needs descriptions of the character's actions or appearance to convey their pyche.. how does that explain a "preference for the bold, simple, and stylized in the presentation of character"...????


#16. I chose answer (C), which seemed to be supported by the first and last sentence of passage B
"...Cather... 'Myself, I prefer to call it a narrative'" and "These 'non-novelistic' structures indirectly articulate the essential and conflicitn forces of desire at work throughout Cather's fiction"
Also in the middle of paragraph one, "Narratologists tend not to focus on the characteristics of marrrative's dominant modern Western form, the 'realistic novel'..."

Therefore,Cather intentionally avoided the realistic pyschological characterization that is the central feature of the modern Western novel.


Again, please help! Much appreciated!!

[giladedelman]

Thanks for your post.

Re: (13):

The key thing about the preferences that Author B mentions is that they are examples of Cather's impressionistic style. Author A, meanwhile, identifies "the thing not named" as being central, even definitive, of Cather's "impressionistic aesthetic." So Author A would see those impressionistic elements as being in the service of this "thing not named."

Re: (16):

It's actually narratologists who, according to Passage B, prefer not to focus on elements of the modern Western novel such as psychological realism. We don't have any direct support for the notion that Cather herself avoided it. And even if we did, that would still be just one detail among many. Clearly, the main point of this paragraph is not simply about psychological realism; it's about how best to interpret Cather's work.

Does that help?

[perng.yan]

ooh.. yes..... it's hard when you miss the linking details within the passage.. thanks for clearing that up.

[panman36]

Appreciate the write-ups. But I believe that scale image is upside-down. Doubt that would confuse anyone... but just in case

[ManhattanPrepLSAT1]

Is the scale upside down for anyone else? I just downloaded a copy and it looked great on my end!

[panman36]

Sorry, I meant that it's weighted down on the wrong side. The side that says "Cathers writing is marked by impressionism..." should be pushed down right?

[giladedelman]

Oooh, you mean because that side is discussed more? Yeah, I suppose so. Frankly, I don't actually bother with that aspect of the scale. The important thing is just to keep track of the two sides of the issue; it's not really relevant which side gets more column inches. I think I drew my scale image with the left side up arbitrarily.

[ganbayou]

Hi, regarding E..
So is the "Cather's goal" "selection and simplification" and "fusing physical world of setting and actions"?
Thank you

[maryadkins]

I think a few of her goals are mentioned. You name a couple. Read a little further, however. I would say that the goals you cite are mentioned in support of a greater goal in lines 28-29, the last line of passage A: "establishment of a prevailing mood."

(E) is tricky for me. But I would eliminate it because of the above--it mischaracterizes the goal according to the author of passage A>

Also, a "bold, simple, stylized" presentation of character isn't something we know the author of Passage A would pin down as being about revealing the "thing not named."

[braintreeprez]

"The thing not named" refers to Cather's goal/desire to create something without having to explicitly say it (lines 20-23), e.g. creating a character whom readers come to recognize as being shy, not because Cather writes "this is one shy dude" somewhere in the text, but because his hyper-stylized actions imply this.

Hence, she prefers bold, simple, and stylized presentations because this helps her successfully convey the particularities of a character without explicitly stating them.

[YihanX379]

I have questions about the question stem. Is it just asking us what the two authors will agree? I read it as selecting one that is mentioned in passage B that the author of passage A would agree...

During my review, I was able to eliminate the four wrong choices and picked (E) reluctantly, because I thought passage B doesn't mention "Cather's goal of representing the 'thing not named'".

Am I getting something wrong?