Pls asap read the passage. excerpt from "first love" judith ortiz cofer in the meantime, i tried desperately to see him. i thought he would look for me too. but the few times i saw him in the hallway, he was always rushing away. it would be long weeks of confusion and pain before i realized that the kiss was nothing but a little trophy for his ego. he had no interest in me other than as his adorer. he was flattered by my silent worship of him, and he had bestowed a kiss on me to himself, and to fan the flames. i learned a lesson about the battle of the sexes then that i have never forgotten: the object is not always to win, but most times simply to keep your opponent (synonymous at times with “the loved one”) guessing. refer to explorations in literature for a complete version of this narrative. which statement best explains how cofer shapes the theme that an act can mean different things for different people in the passage? she explains that "the kiss was nothing but a little trophy for his ego." she explains that, afterward, she only "saw him in the hallway." she shares that she "learned a lesson about the battle of the sexes."

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the answer is mary made mudpies on monday.

remember alliteration is the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.  

with mrs. linde, nora reveals her insensitivity and lack of shame about the forgery she committed. she implies that mrs. linde has obviously aged since they last met 10 years earlier, which accounts for nora’s inability to recognize her old friend. although nora seems sympathetic to mrs. linde’s plight, she can’t seem to control herself from boasting about her three children, her husband’s recent promotion, and how good she feels to finally have some money to spend. in a way, she seems to be flaunting her good fortune in front of mrs. linde who, deprived of all these benefits, has come to ask nora for . it is also through her interactions with mrs. linde that we realize something deeper lies under nora’s seemingly childish exterior. she reveals the secret of her forgery to mrs. linde and seems to see herself as quite resourceful for having done it.

in the company of dr. rank, nora is freer than she is with her own husband. she openly laughs with joy at knowing that all the other bank employees will be under her husband’s control. she offers dr. rank a macaroon, apparently forgetting that he knows she is forbidden to eat them. she then quickly covers for herself by claiming that mrs. linde brought them. nora seems much more assertive and free with these other characters, as well as unabashedly willing to scheme, lie, and justify her transgressions as altruistic.  

krogstad provides an interesting parallel to nora. like nora, he too is guilty of committing forgery, for which torvald condemns him and decides to fire him. although krogstad is a man and nora a woman, their crimes of forgery unite them. in fact, krogstad might represent what nora would be like if she were a man and were not strictly scrupulous like her husband is. for example, she tells mrs. linde that "a barrister's profession is such an uncertain thing, especially if he won't undertake unsavoury cases; and naturally torvald has never been willing to do that." perhaps nora would have delved into the unsavory, given how opposite she is to her husband. krogstad's is also the only harsh voice of reality that nora is forced to hear, and that is because he blackmails her for her regaining his job at the bank. finally, torvald’s reaction to krogstad’s forgery seems to foreshadow his harsh and cold reaction to nora’s forgery.