Heplll noww read the excerpt below and answer the question. "mrs. hutchinson? oh, mrs. hutchinson." thelma batted her eyes. "naw, precious, she come on thursday and didn't ev'n mention your name. i doubt if she ev'n knows you're on the way." "thelma! " cried leota staunchly. in this excerpt from "the petrified man," why does leota get upset at thelma's comment? a)leota does not want thelma to distract her customer with idle gossip. b)mrs. fletcher does not want anyone to know that she is going to be a mother. c)no one is supposed to know that mrs. fletcher is on her way to new orleans. d)thelma is not allowed to talk about her other customers with mrs. fletcher.

The petrified man is a short story by Eudora Welty published in 1939 it centers its attention in two gossiping ladies at a cosmetic shop.

B)Mrs. Fletcher does not want anyone to know that she is going to be a mother.

As mrs fletcher is pregnant and doesn´t want people to gossip about her, she gets mad at the fact that se realizes that people is talking about her.

femininity is conveyed through bernice's personality. she doesn't act how the other girls act and everyone thinks she is weird. she learns how to act in a way that was considered femininely appropriate at the time. she becomes so popular but her attempts to be liked end up backfiring when she is pressured into bobbing her hair. the author wrote that bernice cut off her cousin's hair in revenge for tricking her to cut her hair. this was the authors way of trying to change the way feminine is defined and the way women are expected to act.