Question

Which excerpt from “I Stand Here Ironing” BEST summarizes the overall theme of the story?



A: “Only help her to believe – help make it so there is cause for her to believe that she is more than this dress on the ironing board, helpless before the iron.”

B: “She was dark and thin and foreign-looking in a world where the prestige went to blondness and curly hair and dimples, slow where glibness was prized.”

C: “So all that is in her will not bloom – but in how many does it?”

D: “I was nineteen. It was the pre-relief, pre-WPA world of the depression.”