Idon’t like our room a bit. i wanted one downstairs that opened on the piazza and had roses all over the window, and such pretty old-fashioned chintz hangings! but john would not hear of it.
he said there was only one window and not room for two beds, and no near room for him if he took another.
he is very careful and loving, and hardly lets me stir without special direction.
which statement describes a gothic element in this excerpt that reflects a social attitude of gilman’s time?
john makes decisions on his wife’s behalf, which illustrates that she is not in control of her own fate.
john’s words to his wife indicate that he is a strange and mysterious character who may have other motives.
the narrator’s description of the nearly windowless room contributes to the sense of longing and fear.
the narrator’s description of the rooms that open to the piazza contributes to the sense of mystery and suspense.

Read the passage from the opinion of the court in dred scott v. sandford, written by justice taney. the question then arises, whether the provisions of the constitution, in relation to the personal rights and privileges to which the citizen of a state should be entitled, embraced the negro african race, at that time in this country, or who might afterwards be imported, who had then or should afterwards be made free in any state; and to put it in the power of a single state to make him a citizen of the united states, and endue him with the full rights of citizenship in every other state without their consent? does the constitution of the united states act upon him whenever he shall be made free under the laws of a state, and raised there to the rank of a citizen, and immediately clothe him with all the privileges of a citizen in every other state, and in its own courts? the court thinks the affirmative of these propositions cannot be maintained. and if it cannot, the plaintiff in error could not be a citizen of the state of missouri, within the meaning of the constitution of the united states, and, consequently, was not entitled to sue in its courts. what claim does justice taney make in this passage? that sanford has the right to enslave scott that scott has the right to be emancipated that scott is not a citizen of missouri that sanford cannot sue because he is not a citizen