Fritz—oh—but de talk—de talk—i can't stand it for you. when you go out like dis people don't believe it is for your work. they say you have a lover—they say he writes your books.

frank—that's very flattering. it means that they think they are too good for a woman to do.

which best describes why this excerpt is ironic?
frank should be insulted that people say that a man writes her books, but she actually views it as a compliment.
fritz feels that frank should not go out alone, but frank does not seem to care what other people think.
frank actually has a man who writes her books, but she denies this fact because she does not want people to know.
fritz warns frank that people will question why she is going out alone at night, but it is actually fritz himself who does not want her to go.

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant