The correct answer should be <span>a. self-assertion.
She considers herself to finally be free now that her husband died. She feels that she has the right to be alone and do what she wants without being neglected.</span>
Answer:
A. she worries what they will think of her and her family.
Explanation:
i say this because in the end the writer says that his/her friends rarely had more than a "Mom and Dad" to introduce. which i believe is all the evidence needed to and that she doesn't know how they will take to her relatives names
Answer:
one is "Don't mess this up for me, OK, Scrooge?" because this is relating to Dickens's A Christmas Carol and another would be "Alright, Romeo" because this is alluding to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
Explanation:
An Allusion-an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.
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