Read the excerpt from chapter 1 of the awakening. he stopped before the door of his own cottage, which was the fourth one from the main building and next to the last. seating himself in a wicker rocker which was there, he once more applied himself to the task of reading the newspaper. the day was sunday; the paper was a day old. the sunday papers had not yet reached grand isle. which best explains why the author explains that the “sunday papers had not yet reached grand isle”? to the reader picture mr. pontellier’s frustration with reading a newspaper that is a day old to the reader understand why people from the “quartier français” vacation on grand isle to the reader understand why mr. pontellier decides to read the newspaper at his cottage to the reader picture the separation between grand isle and the coast of louisiana