<p>would you all just stop already? there’s no point in arguing seeing as we already put what we put… and xindianx, that’s not a very convincing argument, as it’s easier to get an answer one wants when that person is arguing one point, it’s biased already</p>
<p>I am 31 years old with bachelors’ degrees in English and education. I took the test to prove a point.</p>
<p>The answer is trouble. </p>
<p>The sarcasm of the sentence lets you know that Mrs. D. WANTED to be troubled. It was the loss of such menial chores and simple activities which truly trouble her now.</p>
<p>She had nothing to trouble herself with.
She had nothing to do but wonder around the house all day, b/c all of the chores were taken care of.</p>
<p>Also…if you ask someone about the question, they won’t know the entire story, or the actual sentence, meaning you will inadvertedly slant the word in question.</p>
<p>Wait, the sentence showed sarcasm SpartyOn? Do you happen to remember the words of the sentence where “perplexed” appeared?</p>
<p>The sentence was somewhat sarcastic, especially in context. I remember the paragraph went something like this: The arts she developped fell into disuse. She watched as the servants tended to every task, supplanting her, until she had nothing to perplex herself save her boredom. There might have been some other comment about her daughter not wanting her mother to do household chores. In any case, it is clear that the author is feigning to be viewing the changing role of the widow from the daughter’s perspective, i.e. the author is sarcastically saying that the widow now has less trouble to attend to. But actually, the author is sympathizing with the old widow, as indicated by “boredom”.</p>
<p>it’s trouble…</p>
<p>entangle is more like…getting caught in something, usually more of a negative connotation (such as an insect getting entangled in a spider web)</p>
<p>trouble is usually negative too, but as mentioned, the sentence was sarcastic…and trouble fits much better with doing chores…like troubling someone to do something…than does entangle…I’ve never heard somebody say “can I entangle you in something?” but i’ve certainly heard “can i trouble you for something?”</p>
<p>It shows sarcasm in relation to the entire passage. Here is this woman, whose daughter has left her home with nothing to perplex her, and she is truly upset about this. I, for one, would love to have some rich relative take care of me so that I don’t have to work all day. Her daughter, Angel, most likely around my age, shares my opinion and cannot understand her mother’s angst. However, Mrs. D. had spent her entire life troubling over the little things; caring for her children, baking bread, ironing the clothes. She misses this, just as she misses her friends and her low-income neighborhood. </p>
<p>Maybe I understand because of my age. Maybe the sarcasm is lost on someone who does not know any empty nesters or retirees. For all of you with stay-at-home, professional Moms (the kind that bake cookies every day), beware. She will become Mrs. D.</p>
<p>P.S. It’s 5:00, and I get to leave the daily grind now. I’ll check back in tomorrow at 8:00. Have fun in college, y’all. I’d give anything to go back.</p>
<p>I wrote in another thread,</p>
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<p>I maintain that this is the correct answer. It’ll be interesting to see what it really is once the scores are out.</p>
<p>edit: Sorry, I didn’t see the most recent responses. SpartyOn, I agree with you.</p>
<p>It’s TROUBLE. Simple as that.</p>
<p>I got trouble</p>
<p>hmm, actually, now that i think of it, i did not catch the sarcasm, i suppose that does in fact state that trouble would be a more appropriate answer. <em>sigh</em>, lol oh well, thanks for the input guys =)</p>
<p>yeh i was between these two also…but although i thought entangle was right because trouble has a more negative connotation and the author was trying to say that the fact that nothing was there to perplex her wasn’t so good…but i ended up putting trouble anyway…n i got either 98 or 96 percentile in cr last time</p>
<p>trouble</p>
<p>I have finally found the source of the passage. It is the novel “Angel” by Elizabeth Taylor (the English novelist, not the actress), first published 1957. I am going to reserve it from our library system and check it out.</p>
<p>trubble!</p>
<p>lol
the SAT is over, time to be stupid again! a duhhhhhhhhhhhhhrrrrrrrrrr</p>