<p>My daughter, Olivia, and I were going to college. Not together at the same school, thank goodness, just at the same time, but she didn’t exactly know about my plans yet. There were a few things that needed work in this arrangement. Any mother who has an eighteen-year-old daughter would completely understand why I didn’t mention my decision to go back to college to Olivia. What? I can’t believe it. Are you actually copying me? Don’t you think you should consider getting your own life? It wasn’t that I planned never to tell her. I just figured I’d wait a bit—until we’d had a little more time to miss each other.</p>
<p>The narrator’s attitude toward her situation is best described as:
a) perplexed
b) prudent
c) sentimental
d) annoyed
e) derisive</p>
<p>please explain to me what is the meaning/ mom’s purpose for this statement: "I just figured I’d wait a bit–until we’d had a little more time to miss each other.
also, explain your reasoning for your answer. thanks</p>
<p>The mother is being prudent, or cautious about the situation. Instead of telling her daughter, she “just figured I’d wait a bit—until we’d had a little more time to miss each other.”</p>
<p>Well, if you knew what these words meant, that’d be helpful. But you can kind of get along by the way they sound:</p>
<p>a) perplexed
This sounds like it’d be like confused or frustrated. She isn’t.
b) prudent
Prudes. Ever hear somebody call someone this? Careful people. Should be this.
c) sentimental
No, she’s not crying her eyes out over it.
d) annoyed
No, she doesn’t sound annoyed at her in that statement.
e) derisive
This sounds like a bad thing. She’s not speaking as if it’s a bad thing in the statement.</p>
<p>the answer is prudent:
i still don’t understand this seentence though: “It wasn’t that I planned never to tell her. I just figured I’d wait a bit—until we’d had a little more time to miss each other.”
why does the mother want to tell her daughter after they had more time to “miss each other”…lol im confused</p>
<p>The mother wants to wait because if she tells her daughter now, her daughter will be irritated and give a response similar to this “What? I cant believe it. Are you actually copying me? Dont you think you should consider getting your own life?”</p>
<p>Thus, she wants to wait a little until they miss each other so that when the mother tells her daughter, she won’t explode that way and will maybe be OK with her mom doing the same thing as her.</p>
<p>Therefore, the mother is being careful, or prudent.</p>
<p>She’s refraining from telling her that she was going to go back to college. It seems common enough that it would be awkward to be an adult going to college and your own kids going to college at the same time. Her daughter’s young. She’s old. It seems a bit out of place to imagine a 45 year old sitting next to you in a classroom full of eighteen year old boys and girls, doesn’t it?</p>
<p>In want of the feeling to subside, she wants to wait a bit until she’s ready to tell her of her decision.</p>