Read the excerpt from chapter 1 of The Awakening. He stopped before the door of his own cottage, which was the fourth one from the main building and next to
the last. Seating himself in a wicker rocker which was there, he once more applied himself to the task of
reading the newspaper. The day was Sunday; the paper was a day old. The Sunday papers had not yet
reached Grand Isle.
Which best explains why the author explains that the "Sunday papers had not yet reached Grand Isle"?
O to help the reader picture Mr. Pontellier's frustration with reading a newspaper that is a day old
O to help the reader understand why people from the "Quartier Français" vacation on Grand Isle
O to help the reader understand why Mr. Pontellier decides to read the newspaper at his cottage
O to help the reader picture the separation between Grand Isle and the coast of Louisiana