by ohthatpatrick Mon Oct 12, 2015 1:00 am
Pre-phrasing these Passage Organization questions can be rough.
I start by reminding myself of the Passage's overall purpose: "Show that this novelist should NOT be compared to domestic novels, since she was writing with the more modern perspective that a novel should just be enjoyed as an artwork unto itself".
Paragraph 2:
- we COULD say Sarah was different for reason X or Y (historical transformations)
- but really Sarah was different for reason Y (changing purpose of novel)
- support for reason Y
(A) ANY attempt at explaining does violence ... whaaaa? The author does attempt to explain.
(B) There's no showing that two things are incompatible with each other.
(C) "not really distinct from each other"? The 2nd sentence starts with a big ol' BUT.
(D) a "classificatory hypothesis"? I guess we're deciding how to classify Sarah's novels. But a counterargument that gets rejected in the last paragraph? So lost.
(E) "a number" sounds too numerous, but the first sentence does mention multiple historical transformation ideas, such as "migration from rural to city"and "more secular society". The author then gives a mildly favorable comment --- "such factors may help to explain the differences" --- and then offers a more fundamental explanation ... the differences in Sarah's novels ULTIMATELY reflect a different explanation, the changing conception of fiction.
Hope this helps.