Question
What is most closely the suggested meaning of the image women sit their sadness on an elbow in the passage below (paragraph 12)?
And the story goes she never forgave him. She looked out the window her whole life, the way so many women sit their sadness on an elbow. I
wonder if she made the best with what she got or was she sorry because she couldn't be all the things she wanted to be.
I A Women live most of their lives in physical pain.
B. Women don't move around much when they get older.
C. Women store all their feelings of sadness in their elbows in order to cope with the pain.
• D. Women get trapped as housewives, dreaming of a better life outside.
Answer
D. Women get trapped as housewives, dreaming of a better life outside.