Read these passages:

her head was spinning and she tried to steady herself by clutching at her thoughts as they swept by, but they slipped away from her like bushes on the side of a sheer precipice down which she seemed to be falling. suddenly her mind grew clear again and she found herself vividly picturing what would happen when the train reached new york. she shuddered as it occurred to her that he would be quite cold and that someone might perceive he had been dead since morning….

gradually new thoughts crowded upon her, vivid and urgent: she tried to separate and restrain them, but they beset her clamorously, like her school-children at the end of a hot day, when she was too tired to silence them. her head grew confused, and she felt a sick fear of forgetting her part, of betraying herself by some unguarded word or look.

write a paragraph in which you analyze how the context and language structures of the passages convey edith wharton’s intent and viewpoint in “a journey.” use details from the passages to support your main idea.