Part A What can be inferred about Mathilde's attitude toward the couple’s modest circumstances at the beginning of "The Necklace"? She values her comfortable home and loving husband more than material things. She is determined and believes one day she and her husband will be wealthy. She is grateful because she can always borrow from friends whatever she and her husband can't afford. She is dissatisfied because she values fine possessions over simple pleasures. Question 2 Part B Which sentence from "The Necklace" best supports the inference in Part A? "Instead of being delighted, as her husband had hoped, she threw the invitation on the table crossly, muttering, 'What do you want me to do with that?'" "And she answered, 'It annoys me not to have a single piece of jewelry, not a single ornament, nothing to put on. I shall look poverty-stricken. I would almost rather not go at all.'" "She threw her arms round her friend's neck, kissed her with great emotion, then fled with her treasure." "'Yes. You never noticed it, then! They were very similar.' And she smiled with proud and naive joy."

the speech this question is referring to is president kennedy's special message to the congress on urgent national needs, may 25, 1961

kennedy responds in a very direct and concrete way to those thinking that communism is a positive system:

"yet their aggression is more often concealed than open. they have fired no missiles; and their troops are seldom seen. they send arms, agitators, aid, technicians and propaganda to every troubled area. but where fighting is required, it is usually done by others--by guerrillas striking at night, by assassins striking alone--assassins who have taken the lives of four thousand civil officers in the last twelve months in vietnam alone--by subversives and saboteurs and insurrectionists, who in some cases control whole areas inside of independent nations." (kennedy)

president kennedy presents communism as cowardly, as a hidden and treacherous weapon that strikes from the shadows like thieves, he represents the system as not even being capable of showing and open and overt attack or confrontation. to finish up the response, he expresses that the system attacks even a country's idependence and freedom.

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