<p>It was definitely that she needed more space</p>
<p>how can a design cramp a style that makes no sense</p>
<p>thank you necktie, can you please explain ur reasoning so people can get another person’s view supporting “more space”</p>
<p>@etennis12 It seems as though it really depends on how you define “style” in that context.
I mean, she could be trying to go for a more serious tone, which in that case, plain white paper would do the trick as opposed to the flowery designs.</p>
<p>The design cramps her style because it is tacky!</p>
<p>The grandaughter is young, and hip- she makes up all these cool stories. Her grandmother is old and boring, she makes up bland stories. The girl wants to make more interesting stories- this is her STYLE. Floral patterns are tacky and old- these are parallel with the grandmother’s style. Since the girls style is very different from that of her grandmother’s, she wants to get away from the floral patterns, and therefore uses a new type of paper.</p>
<p>^Huge assumptions about the floral patterns</p>
<p>How about relating it to <em>fashion</em>.
When’s the last time you’ve seen pop-icons wearing floral patterns? Never. They have dynamic, new, fresh STYLE(Similar to the grandaughter in the story!). </p>
<p>Making lady gaga wear floral patterns would definitely cramp her style!</p>
<p>^huge assumptions again</p>
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<p>This is not an assumption. This is fact.</p>
<p>Floral patterns have been deemed old-fashioned & tacky by society.</p>
<p>okay let me ask you this, what can “cramp” her style, the lack of space to express all her feelings or a flower in the corner of the index card</p>
<p>^what society? that is such a huge assumption</p>
<p>I don’t think there’s ever any mention of a shortage of the floral stationery. However, I’m inclined to believe that I’m wrong because of all the mentions of the insubstantial material of the floral paper. I just want to stress the possibility that the granddaughter could very well be going for something more formal in thumping down the stack of white paper. If so, wouldn’t her style, if defined as one’s expression in a letter, be cramped because the stationery could prevent the evocation of certain emotions?</p>
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<p>How do you know that it’s just a flower in the corner of the index card? That’s a big assumption.</p>
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<p>BAM! YOU GOT IT. Emotions! Emotions Emotions Emotions! It’s not about the space of the text, its about the emotion she wants to convey!</p>
<p>The floral pattern limits, or CRAMPS, the <em>emotional style</em> she is trying to convey!</p>
<p>Cramp is not referring to the space- it is referring to the style, the emotional style! :)</p>
<p>also, it is a huge assumption that the granddaughter prefers to “new” and not “old.” The granddaughter in the whole passage only does not like that fact that her grandmother does not express much in the letters not that she is a conservative Republican. Tell me how can u extrapolate that the granddaughter is some liberal cosmopolitan person.</p>
<p>You’re looking to deep into it now.</p>
<p>The granddaughter is young, the grandmother is old. Simple as that!</p>
<p>I am under the impression that the letters were to be written by “Grandma”, so the floral styling would be an irrelevant detail to the granddaughter. She needed more space. End of story.</p>
<p>okay what if the grandmother lived in a time period that florals were out of date also, see how u cant make these assumptions</p>
<p>Thanks, lordfarquaad</p>
<p>plus collegeboard would never make a person assume the ubiquities of a certain period</p>