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Question 2 • English Language Arts 11

Read the excerpt from Midnight Assassin . As Glaspell struggled to understand and describe Margaret Hossack, her accounts alternated between those that portrayed Margaret Hossack as maternal and frail—anxious to see her family; tired and worn by the course of events—and those that depicted her as lacking in the typical emotional and feminine traits—not hysterical, but emotionless and dry-eyed; not weak, but determined and willful; not soft-featured, but square-jawed and hard. The excerpt supports the idea that the newspaper stories Glaspell wrote about Margaret Hossack were

Answer
A
objective and emotionless.
B
consistent and fact-based
C
inconsistent and opinion-based.
D
clear and well-researched.
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