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She had the quickest fancy, a gift like her brother's, for the tune of words. Like him, she had a taste for the theatre. She stood at the stage door; she wanted to act, she said. Men laughed in her face. The manager—a fat, loose-lipped man—guffawed. He bellowed something about poodles dancing and women acting—no woman, he said, could possibly be an actress. He hinted—you can imagine what. She could get no training in her craft. Could she even seek her dinner in a tavern or roam the streets at midnight? Yet her genius was for fiction and lusted to feed abundantly upon the lives of men and women.

–A Room of One’s Own,
Virginia Woolf

How does the writer use text structure to develop the central idea of inequality?

by presenting the girl’s problem and how she solves the dilemma
by making a comparison between the girl and her brother
by repeating emotionally charged questions that are not meant to be answered
by overstating the actions of the theatre manager

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