Which statement best explains how the structure of this text supports Woolf's purpose?
Read the passage from A Room of one's own.
There was an enormous body of masculine opinion to
the effect that nothing could be expected of women
intellectually. Even if her father did not read out loud
these opinions, any girl could read them for herself; and
the reading, even in the nineteenth century, must have
lowered her vitality, and told profoundly upon her work.
There would always have been that assertion-you
cannot do this, you are incapable of doing that-o
protest against, to overcome. Probably for a novelist this
germ is no longer of much effect; for there have been
women novelists of merit. But for painters it must still
have some sting in it; and for musicians, I imagine, is
even now active and poisonous in the extreme. The
woman composer stands where the actress stood in the
time of Shakespeare.
The compare-contrast structure helps the reader
understand how women artists in a variety of
disciplines have been affected by cultural norms.
O The cause-effect structure supports the point of view
that men, particularly fathers, are often the source of
young women's oppression.
O The problem-solution structure supports the point of
view that conditions for women artists in most
disciplines have improved dramatically.
O The chronological structure illustrates the pressures
discouraging women artists from pursuing their
passions from youth to adulthood.
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