This book shows a searching insight into the motives of the "fool woman" order of being, the woman who learns nothing by experience and has not a large enough circle of vision to see beyond her own immediate desires. In many ways, it is unhealthily introspective and morbid in feeling, as the story of the sort of woman must inevitably be. Which statement best describes this response? It reflects society's discomfort with women's emerging independence in 1899. It reflects society's interest in women's political rights in 1899. It reflects society's concern with women's health care reform in 1899. It reflects society's disapproval of women's intellectual pursuits in 1899.

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This book shows a searching insight into the motives of the "fool woman" order of being, the woman who learns nothing by experience and has not a large enough circle of vision to see beyond her own immediate desires. In many ways, it is unhealthily introspective and morbid in feeling, as the story of the sort of woman must inevitably be. Which statement best describes this response? It reflects society's discomfort with women's emerging independence in 1899. It reflects society's interest in women's political rights in 1899. It reflects society's concern with women's health care reform in 1899. It reflects society's disapproval of women's intellectual pursuits in 1899.

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This excerpt from the "los Angeles Sunday Times" (June 1899) might reflect society’s discomfort with women’s emerging independence in 1899 (option A). It is suggested that the author of the book (Kate Chopin) wrote an " unhealthy introspective and morbid in feeling as that sort of woman must inevitably be".