Edith Wharton sought in her memoir to present herself as having achieved a harmonious wholeness by having ------- the conflicting elements of her life.
(A) affirmed (8) highlighted © reconciled (D) confined (E) identified
Can someone help me with this? The answer is C but I can’t figure out why. Thanks!
reuse the word harmonious for the blank
How did you eliminate “highlighted”?
Hey @keyashukla12
I’m not a complete master in TC, but nevertheless I’ll tell you how I solved this question before
In this passage, it is given that EW has attained “harmonious wholeness” or you can say “purity”, which it means she doesn’t have any “negativity” or “non-harmony” anymore.
But how did she do that? She re-corrected something that is contradicting with the harmoniousness.
In that way, “reconciled” is close to something “re-corrected”.
Please let me know if my approach seems incorrect
Now, the blank is describing the conflicting elements of her life and as we have no contrast words before the blank ,hence, we can forward with this idea of friendly terms with everything/ made peace with everything . So ,what she did to the conflicting elements of her life —> made peace with it. Therefore only option C :-reconciled works
Doesn’t ‘confined’ also work?
As EW sought to “present” herself as having achieved harmony. Wouldn’t this imply that she actually didn’t achieve her goal, but wanted to present herself otherwise.
Makes sense, thanks a lot!
Yep, now I see it. Thank you so much!
I think you’re “telling a story”. The blank is more focused on how she presented herself as having achieved harmony, not why. So the “why” aspect is kinda irrelevant i think. @HoldMyBeer 's explanation works, so try checking that out. Hope this helps!
I’d hope the passage would offer more proof she’s trying to deceive her readership.
