Read the following character introduction from a drama:
in a simple, sparsely decorated apartment, rosie sits
alone, sewing. she rocks back and forth rhythmically,
giggling to herself softly. when the others enter, she drops
her sewing and stands in the corner. she remains there,
arms folded, looking down, while they begin to prepare
dinner cheerily.
which assumption about rosie is best supported by this excerpt?
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a. she has a condition that that makes socializing difficult, and she
prefers being alone.
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b. she is upset with her mother for not allowing her to go to college.
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c. she is happy with her role as a seamstress but has never learned
to cook
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d. she was not supposed to be in the apartment and is hoping not to
be noticed

He leaned his head against the wall; his eyes were shut, his hands clasped in each other, and his body seemed to be sustained in an upright position merely by the cellar-door against which he rested his left shoulder. the lethargy into which he was sunk seemed scarcely interrupted by my feeling his hand and his forehead. his throbbing temples and burning skin indicated a fever . . there was only one circumstance that hindered me from forming an immediate determination in what manner this person should be treated. my family consisted of my wife and a young child. our servant-maid had been seized, three days before, by the reigning malady, and, at her own request, had been conveyed to the hospital. we ourselves enjoyed good health, and were hopeful of escaping with our lives. our measures for this end had been cautiously taken and carefully adhered to. they did not consist in avoiding the receptacles of infection, for my office required me to go daily into the midst of them; nor in filling the house with the exhalations of gunpowder, vinegar, or tar. they consisted in cleanliness, reasonable exercise, and wholesome diet. who is the story’s first-person narrator