The word "apocalypse" comes from the greek word meaning "a lifting of the veil or revelation," essentially relating the end of the world to a disclosure of knowledge or information. how does this definition of apocalypse relate to the end of the world within the story "by the waters of babylon" and how the characters within the story should proceed with their own knowledge?

Millicent sat down at her desk in the big study hall. tomorrow she would come to school, proudly, laughingly, without lipstick, with her brown hair straight and shoulder length, and then everybody would know, even the boys would know, that she was one of the elect. teachers would smile , thinking perhaps: so now they've picked millicent arnold. i never would have guessed it. —"initiation," sylvia plath what inference can be made about millicent from the way she is characterized indirectly? millicent is a student with straight brown hair. millicent does not usually take care of her appearance. millicent has not always been popular.