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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du
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jour brought to you by short answers making tall answers
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feel better about themselves for centuries Check the following passage
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and we're just going to skim it really quick because
- 00:14
this is seriously the eighteenth time we've read it so
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- 00:17
we're just done All right Why does the narrator use
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the word Perhaps twice and in all capital letters in
- 00:24
paragraph two how does the narrator seem to feel about
- 00:27
her husband's opinion on her condition Support your answer with
- 00:31
evidence from the passage and well here's a potential answer
- 00:34
So rock on people The narrator has her own opinions
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about her condition which contradict those of her husband She
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states that her husband does not really believe that she's
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sick but has given her medicine to take and has
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prescribed certain activities to her while restricting her from other
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activities She believes that getting out and socialising would be
- 00:55
beneficial to her But her husband feels otherwise The narrator
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states the following john is a physician and perhaps i
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would not say to a living soul of course But
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this is dead paper and a great relief to my
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mind perhaps That is one reason i do not get
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well faster The narrator uses the word perhaps which isn't
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a particularly strong word on its own in order to
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convey her sarcasm toward her husband's professional opinion about her
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condition In the time period in which the story was
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written it would have been unacceptable for a woman to
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contradict her husband In such a way The word perhaps
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takes on a new connotation because it's transformed into a
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word that directly challenges the authority of john is a
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male doctor This has been your sample short answer See
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how we used a ton of specific evidence from the 00:01:39.505 --> [endTime] passage Yep that's How it's done
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