Betty Smith’s 1943 novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is regularly described as autobiographical. That characterization is apt—there are many parallels between the experiences of the novel’s protagonist, Francie Nolan, and those of Smith—but it should not be taken to mean that every person or event depicted in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn has a real-life analogue. Much of the novel is pure invention, and readers who neglect this fact and instead focus excessively on correspondences between the novel and Smith’s life can thus __________
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easyWhich choice most logically completes the text?
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misrepresent A Tree Grows in Brooklyn as being more widely read than it actually is.
B
overemphasize the extent to which Smith took inspiration from earlier writers.
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refuse to acknowledge that Smith drew on real-world material when writing A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
D
fail to appreciate how much creativity Smith shows in the book.