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Using the table below, describe the various characters and their perspectives in the story. Type one to three traits in each box. In the column
labeled "Evidence from the Text," enter quotations from the excerpt to support your descriptions.
BI V X X Font Sizes - A - A - EE EE 3
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How does the author use the character of the nurse to develop the social issue of gender inequality? the nurse’s willingness to take care of nora when nora was little demonstrates a woman’s ability to do difficult work. the nurse’s need to give up a child in order to have a job demonstrates a woman’s inability to support herself. the fact that the nurse’s child wrote to her as a young girl and as an adult demonstrates a woman’s ability to keep friends forever. the nurse’s assurance to nora that her children ask for her often demonstrates women’s role in health care.