Read the following excerpt from The Age of Innocence, and identify the narrator's tone regarding Countess Olenska's behavior.

"To the general relief, the Countess Olenska was not present in her grandmother's drawing-room during the visit of the betrothed couple. Mrs. Mingott said she had gone out; which, on a day of such glaring sunlight, and at the "shopping hour," seemed in itself an indelicate thing for a compromised woman to do."

A.) relief

B.) confusion

C.) annoyance

D.) disapproval

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Isaiah Michael

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6 May, 22:15

Read the following excerpt from The Age of Innocence, and identify the narrator's tone regarding Countess Olenska's behavior.

"To the general relief, the Countess Olenska was not present in her grandmother's drawing-room during the visit of the betrothed couple. Mrs. Mingott said she had gone out; which, on a day of such glaring sunlight, and at the "shopping hour," seemed in itself an indelicate thing for a compromised woman to do."

A.) relief

B.) confusion

C.) annoyance

D.) disapproval

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Odin Spears · Answer 1

The tone is of strong disapproval.

Explanation:

The passage here presents multiple instances of disapproval of Countess Olenska's behavior

the narrator calls her a compromised woman, essentially, one of a loose character. questions her going outside in the' shopping hour', that is, when she has a chance of meeting men outside. her absence when the betrothed couple comes is presented as a relief. She is either ill mannered or her family is ashamed of having her around.

It is evident that the Countess here is being judged on impossible standards.