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Reading "The Wife" Emily Dickinson

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Reading "The Wife" Emily Dickinson
-In "The Wife," Emily Dickinson writes in the first stanza that the woman in her poem,
"…dropped/
The playthings of her life to take the honorable work/
Of woman and wife."
These lines can be interpreted to mean which of the following?


A) A woman's interests outside of marriage are considered unimportant
B) A woman's interests outside or marriage are considered to be very important
C) Sometimes women drop their marital responsibilities to follow their dreams
D) Sometimes men drop their wives when they carry them over the threshold after the wedding

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