Read the excerpt from "a pair of silk stockings." she was not going through any acute mental process or reasoning with herself, nor was she striving to explain to her satisfaction the motive of her action. she was not thinking at all. she seemed for the time to be taking a rest from that laborious and fatiguing function and to have abandoned herself to some mechanical impulse that directed her actions and freed her of responsibility. which topic is represented in the excerpt? a. the joys and pitfalls of motherhood b. the brief rejection of an obligatory role c. the subconscious desire for luxury d. the pressures of a forceful society