Which statement best describes how the story's plot influences the narrator in "Homesick"? A. The treatment she receives on her arrival on US soil spoils the narrator's excitement about it.

B. Having to prove it is all right for her to be in the US changes the narrator's desire to live there.

C. Being jostled from line to line causes the narrator to regret traveling thousands of miles to get to the US.

D. Crossing thousands of miles of ocean takes away the narrator's excitement about reaching US soil.
A

How does the author use the character of the nurse to develop the social issue of gender inequality? the nurse’s willingness to take care of nora when nora was little demonstrates a woman’s ability to do difficult work. the nurse’s need to give up a child in order to have a job demonstrates a woman’s inability to support herself. the fact that the nurse’s child wrote to her as a young girl and as an adult demonstrates a woman’s ability to keep friends forever. the nurse’s assurance to nora that her children ask for her often demonstrates women’s role in health care.