Which best explains why alcott begins the chapter with one character asking another character a question? to develop one character in more detail than another to the reader visualize the characters’ appearances to stimulate the reader’s desire to understand a character’s motives to establish the setting for the characters’ conversation.

Explanation:

In the given excerpt from the beginning of Chapter 5 of "Little Women", one character asking another character a question in order to stimulate the reader’s desire  to understand a character’s motives. She did this with the expect to prop the energy of the story up. In the wake of perusing the given passage, the peruser can comprehend that Jo plans to go outside looking for experience. She has just put on her rain boots and is conveying an old sack, a floor brush and a scoop. She is good to go for her scan for experience.

Excerpt:

"What in the world are you going to do now, Jo?" asked Meg one snowy afternoon, as her sister came tramping through the hall, in rubber boots, old sack, and hood, with a broom in one hand and a shovel in the other. "Going out for exercise," answered Jo with a mischievous twinkle in her eyes. "I should think two long walks this morning would have been enough! It's cold and dull out, and I advise you to stay warm and dry by the fire, as I do," said Meg with a shiver. "Never take advice! Can't keep still all day, and not being a pus sycat, I don't like to doze by the fire. I like adventures, and I'm going to find some."

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