Read the passage from a doll's house
which statement best reflects the central idea explored in
the passages?
nora: well, then i have found other ways of earning
money. last winter i was lucky enough to get a lot of
copying to do, so i locked myself up and sat writing every
evening until quite late at night. many a time i was
desperately tired; but all the same it was a tremendous
pleasure to sit there working and earning money. it was
like being a man
read the passage from a room of one's own.
social norms deprived women of privacy and
opportunities for independence.
women were permitted to pursue their goals only if
they did so in public.
financial wealth was essential for women to secure
privacy for themselves.
women produced better work when they were allowed
to seclude themselves,
but for women, i thought, looking at the empty shelves,
these difficulties were infinitely more formidable. in the
first place, to have a room of her own, let alone a quiet
room or a sound-proof room, was out of the question,
unless her parents were exceptionally rich or very noble,
even up to the beginning of the nineteenth century. since
her pin money, which depended on the goodwill of her
father was only enough to keep her clothed, she was
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