PrepTest 133 - Section 4 - Passage 2 - Question 12

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Intro Topic · Chopin's literary development

Background · Chopin grew up with sentimental novels

Features of sentimental novels.

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Intro Group · Local Colorists (L.C.)

Chopin initially modeled her work on local colorists. Who were they?

L.C. Social Context · Expanding opportunities for women

Local colorists liked that traditional "women's culture" was dissolving.

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L.C. Attitude · Local colorists neutrally observed these changes

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L.C. Attitude Change · Local colorists mourn the loss of "women's culture"

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Illustrate L.C. Attitude · House as female nurturing, etc.

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Contrast to L.C. · Chopin writes about different subjects

Loneliness, isolation, frustration... not traditional "women's culture."

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Similar to L.C. · Chopin uses the same conventions

Callback to "scientific detachment" of the L.C. to tell melodramatic tales

Evolution · Chopin discards L.C. in favor of New Women (N.W.)

Moved past L.C.'s nostalgia (for "women's culture"). Modeled later work on N.W.

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N.W. Details · Innovation in form and content

Unlike both sentimental novels and L.C.'s short stories, N.W. explores fantasy; parable; different worlds; and uses impressionistic methods to explore female consciousness

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The Awakening · Took N.W. approach further

Used impressionistic methods to render the female consciousness.

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For this Purpose in Context question, we should consider our low-res summary of the paragraph and how these sentences fit into it. The purpose of the first paragraph is to introduce us to Chopin and then transition to one of her main influences: the local colorists. The sentences about sentimental novels tell us what kind of literary culture Chopin was growing up in. This sets up a contrast with the kind of writer Chopin became: she was influenced by the local colorists (and later the New Women), which led her writing in a different direction from the sentimental novels she grew up with. So the purpose of these two sentences is to show us where Chopin began, in order to help us appreciate her literary journey.

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Anti-supported. Chopin avoided mimicking them.

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Chopin’s rejection of the local colorists had nothing to do with sentimental novels. In fact, Chopin liked how the local colorists’ style was different from that of sentimental novels. She rejected the local colorists because of their backward-looking focus on “women’s culture” and her discovery of the New Women movement.

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The description of sentimental novels is introductory background about the context Chopin was coming from. It tells us what kind of literature she grew up with, which helps makes her literary journey—which went in a different direction from those sentimental novels—all the more interesting.

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Nothing in the passage suggests a connection between nostalgia and excess, whether from Chopin’s perspective or anyone else’s. Chopin did believe that sentimental novels were excessive, but those excesses didn’t stem from any kind of nostalgia. It was the local colorists who were nostalgic, and their style was detached and crisp rather than excessive.

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The author never takes the position that women’s literature was already flourishing, so these two sentences can’t be meant as support for that position.

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