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"A Pair of Silk Stockings" is an 1897 short story written by Kate Chopin. In the story, Mrs. Sommers attends a play, which she experiences as a temporary escape from the circumstances of her daily life: ______
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Which quotation from "A Pair of Silk Stockings" most effectively illustrates the claim?
"The play was over, the music ceased, the crowd filed out. It was like a dream ended."
A
"But there were vacant seats here and there, and into one of them she was ushered, between brilliantly dressed women who had gone there to kill time and eat candy and display their gaudy attire."
B
"It was a little later when she entered the theatre, the play had begun and the house seemed to be packed."
C
"When she entered [the restaurant] her appearance created no surprise, no consternation, as she had half feared it might."
D