Question

" A Girl of the Limberlost" The setting of the story affects Elnora's personal desires by ?

A) describing her family's great wealth and life of ease and privilege.
B) taking away her life goals of becoming a successful student and teacher.
C) showing how Elnora's mother's failed dreams encourage Elnora in her own goals.
D)describing her family's poverty and need for financial help for her education.

Answer 1

The setting of the story affects Elnora's personal desires by describing her family's poverty and need for financial help for her education.

Step-by-step explanation:

Lenora is a very intelligent and motivated girl who is about to start high school at the beginning of the story, it is set in a difficult time for her mother and herself in the little town where they live. Lenora desires to achieve a great academic education and she fights for it until she becomes an independent woman, even though her surroundings were not very helpful.