Read the quote from betty friedan’s the feminine mystique.
sometimes a woman would say “i feel empty somehow . . incomplete.” or she would say, “i feel as if i don’t exist.” sometimes she blotted out the feeling with a tranquilizer.
which best describes the connotation of “blotted” in the excerpt?
a. it has a positive connotation, because it implies the women were able to erase the feelings of emptiness.
b. it has a positive connotation, because it implies the emptiness was able to be replaced with happiness.
c. it has a negative connotation, because it implies women were actually strengthening the feelings of emptiness.
d. it has a negative connotation, because it implies women were merely temporarily lessening the feelings of emptiness.

1) Which excerpt from Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique contains underlined keywords that reflect mainstream society’s view of a woman’s role in the 1950s and ’60s?

The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women.

They were taught to pity the neurotic, unfeminine, unhappy women who wanted to be poets or physicists or presidents.

Some women, in their forties and fifties, still remembered painfully giving up those dreams, but most of the younger women no longer even thought about them.

All they had to do was devote their lives from earliest girlhood to finding a husband and bearing children.

According to The Feminine Mystique, many women of the 1950s and ’60s felt trapped by society’s expectations. Which excerpt contains keywords that best describe their feelings?

Other women were satisfied with their lives, she thought.

What kind of a woman was she if she did not feel this mysterious fulfillment waxing the kitchen floor?

When a woman went to a psychiatrist for help, as many women did, she would

say, “I’m so ashamed,” or “I must be hopelessly neurotic.”

“There’s nothing wrong really,” they kept telling themselves.

Answer the anwser above is D

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b

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