Read this characterization of Della from "The Gift of the Magi." Then she heard his step on the stair away down on the first flight, and she turned white for just a moment.

The phrase "she turned white for just a moment” is mainly used to show that Della

Della becomes suddenly nervous about what Jim will think about her hair and how she will tell him how she sold it. She is unsure whether Jim will become cross with her.

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in this passage from chapter 6 of "animal farm", by george orwell, what the author is ridiculing in this passage is the frivolity of some rules.

clover, the mare, believes she remembers that the fourth commandment forbade sleeping in beds because it was something that humans did. snowball, napoleon, and the pigs are brain-workers who look after the welfare of the farm. they are the obvious leaders because they are smart, and so they are entitled to eat the best food and sleep in beds. it is squealer, who says these lines making the difference between sleeping with sheets, what humans do, and sleeping in beds, what pigs do. the unwillingness to question authority makes the oppressed to obey without thinking.