ShmoopTube

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Here's your shmoop du jour...

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If you don't quite have this passage branded into your brain yet, hit pause and take another gander...

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Why is the narrator so upset?

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And here are the potential answers:

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Ok, what is this question asking?

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Basically, it wants to know if we're paying attention.

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Is it because her friends are abandoning her to hang out at an event she's not invited

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Yeah, her friends will be out having fun without her... but she doesn't blame it on them.

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She blames it on this mysterious "he" she keeps talking about.

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Is she upset because she decides to stay home to study?

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Well, if it was her decision, we're not sure what cause she'd have to be upset.

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No, not that one either. Is it because she's locked in a dungeon

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and there is no one to rescue her?

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My my... what an imagination we have.

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No... she's upset because she's missing an important event... and we can reasonably

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assume it's her dad who's throwing down the hammer.

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Our answer is B.

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