Maude Lexington used to live on Park Avenue in Manhattan, but when her husband took the job as president of the state university branch here in Plainville, she reluctantly moved along with him. I waited on her once at the Pig and Fry, right after they moved to town. First thing I noticed was that she didn't make eye contact with anyone but her husband, and every time she looked at him he wilted like a daisy on a hot day. She told me to bring her the most expensive thing on the menu, but when I brought her the smoked catfish salad — which is absolutely delicious — she turned up her nose like it was a plate of dirt and worms. "I should have you fired on the spot for bringing me this abomination! Do you know who I am? I am descended from royalty!" And on and on like that. She grabbed her mink coat — or fox, or badger, or whatever it was — and stormed out, still with no eye contact and her nose in the air. Her poor husband apologized over and over and left a big tip, and then he scurried out after her. what is the best explanation of how the passage provides indirect characterization of maude lexington 1 of 2 QUESTIONS
a. It uses foils — including the bitter narrator — to show her understanding nature.
b. It uses action — including her refusal to make eye contact — to show her snobbish nature.
c. It uses action — including her enjoyment of catfish salad — to show her tasteful nature.
d. It uses foils — including her meek husband — to show her powerful nature.

Hillenbrand writes, "as louie blazed through college, far away, history was turning" (p. 43). why does the author interrupt louie's narrative with information about japan and germany?

Select the correct answer. read this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich: her attitude towards him and his diseases is still the same. just as the doctor had adopted a certain relation to his patient which he could not abandon, so had she formed one towards him—that he was not doing something he ought to do and was himself to blame, and that she reproached him lovingly for this—and she could not now change that attitude. "you see he doesn't listen to me and doesn't take his medicine at the proper time. and above all he lies in a position that is no doubt bad for him—with his legs up." she described how he made gerasim hold his legs up. the doctor smiled with a contemptuous affability that said: "what's to be done? these sick people do have foolish fancies of that kind, but we must forgive them. . " they all rose, said good-night, and went away. when they had gone it seemed to ivan ilyich that he felt better; the falsity had gone with them. but the pain remained—that same pain and that same fear that made everything monotonously alike, nothing harder and nothing easier. everything was worse. again minute followed minute and hour followed hour. everything remained the same and there was no cessation. and the inevitable end of it all became more and more terrible. based on the excerpt, how is praskovya fedorovna a character foil to ivan ilyich? a. she is kind and takes care of ivan, which is why he feels guilty about how he treated her for most of their married life. b. she is vindictive toward ivan while pretending to be worried about him, thus reminding him of how his family has never forgiven him. c. she plays the part of the worried wife without any real feeling, symbolizing the false propriety ivan upheld but now hates. d. she is young, healthy, and beautiful—everything ivan can never be again and wishes he could return to. reset next

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