Q15

[xinglipku]

I picked C correctly by elimination and instinct, but later I found it a bit unclear from where in passage B does it support C?

[ohthatpatrick]

I totally agree: this correct answer is barely supported by psg. B. We're really getting (C) from psg A's discussion of "not depicting her characters' emotions directly but telling us how they behave".

The only thing that I think qualifies as support from psg. B is lines 40-47.

We're told that narratologists don't focus on "direct psychological characterization" (i.e., depicting characters' emotions directly). Then the author says that this mode of criticism - NOT focusing on direct psychological characterization - is 'exactly appropriate to Cather's work'.

So the author of B implies that the list of qualities found in "the realistic novel", including direct psychological characterization, is not found in Cather's work.

Convincing, right? ( <---- sarcasm)

I applaud your instincts, because the supporting text here is truly obscure.

Hope this helps.

[ttunden]

whats wrong with B?

[maryadkins]

Cather uses physical descriptions to reveal the characters' emotions without naming what the emotions are. (B) tells us the opposite. (Compare, for instance, (B) to the correct answer, (C).) To give an account of a character's emotional scars is to explicitly tell us what those emotions are. This is not what Cather does according to the author of Passage A.

As for the others:

(A) misconstrues the point of Passage A that she gives physical details to convey emotions, not to convey something more factual and non-internal like "wealth."

(D) also misses the mark for both passages—we don't have support that she could have given a chronological summary.

(E) also doesn't capture what Wither actually does according to either author. It makes it about cause and effect, which author B explicitly rejects (line 44) and author A doesn't talk about.

I hope this clears things up!