Prepare to discuss the text you selected by reading it independently. Record your thoughts about the passage in the following chart. You may need to conduct additional research to support your understanding of certain elements of the argument, particularly the situation and audience.

What is the narrators main conflict in this passage

Which three elements of gothic literature clearly mirror the situation of women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? strange characters and settings an overall atmosphere of mystery and suspense unexplained or supernatural events characters’ inability to control their fates high emotions experienced by characters suffering from a sense of doom women threatened by powerful males

This awakened in the washington a distrustful scrutiny into what