Dr. pickles calls 9-1-1 to report betty’s behavior and injury. as the ambulance arrives and the emts are carrying betty out on a stretcher, her best friend veronica arrives at the office. veronica, upset at the sight of an injured betty, screams and collapses to the ground. the emts take out a second stretcher and whisk both girls away to the hospital. the police arrive at the newspaper office and dr. pickles demands that they search the office for any documentation relating to his supposed home improvements.

whats it going to be about?

answer: the correct answer is that he still ridicules people that look different.

explanation: in "the nose"   by nikolai gogol, the author sets up a satirical view of russian society. the book is divided into three parts and tells the story of collegiate assessor ('major') kovalyov, who gets up one morning without his nose. he later finds out that his nose has developed a life by itself, and has apparently surpassed him by attaining the rank of state councillor. the short story showcases the obsession with social rank that plagued russia after peter the great introduced the table of ranks. by allowing commoners to attain hereditary nobility through service to the state, a large population was given the chance to move up in social status. this opportunity, however, also gave way to large bureaucracies, in which many of gogol's characters worked.