Read the excerpt from "Why I Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper.'" Then, using the remnants of intelligence that remained, and helped by a wise friend, I cast the noted specialist’s advice to the winds and went to work again—work, the normal life of every human being; work, in which is joy and growth and service, without which one is a pauper and a parasite—ultimately recovering some measure of power. Which social attitude of Gilman’s era does this excerpt demonstrate?
Answer
A
Working is something that is done with the hands not the mind.
B
Working against a doctor’s advice has negative consequences.
C
Working is only for those who have to make money to survive.
D
Working gives people a sense of competence and control.
Explanation
The narrator calls work “the normal life of every human being” and says it brings “joy and growth and service.” She also connects returning to work with recovering “some measure of power,” suggesting that work can help people feel capable and in control. Therefore, the excerpt demonstrates the attitude that working gives people a sense of competence and control.
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