Read the excerpt from Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique. So the door of all those pretty suburban houses opened a crack to permit a glimpse of uncounted thousands of American housewives who suffered alone from a problem that suddenly everyone was talking about, and beginning to take for granted, as one of those unreal problems in American life that can never be solved-like the hydrogen bomb. By 1962 the plight of the trapped American housewife had become a national parlor game. Which key terms from the excerpt most support the theme that women can feel suffocated by societal expectations? suffered, plight, trapped uncounted, alone, unreal suburban, housewives, solved thousands, American, national

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Gwendolyn Barnes

27 February, 08:46

Read the excerpt from Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique. So the door of all those pretty suburban houses opened a crack to permit a glimpse of uncounted thousands of American housewives who suffered alone from a problem that suddenly everyone was talking about, and beginning to take for granted, as one of those unreal problems in American life that can never be solved-like the hydrogen bomb. By 1962 the plight of the trapped American housewife had become a national parlor game. Which key terms from the excerpt most support the theme that women can feel suffocated by societal expectations? suffered, plight, trapped uncounted, alone, unreal suburban, housewives, solved thousands, American, national

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Jayla Barnes · Answer 1

The key terms from the excerpt that mos support the theme that women can feel suffocated by societal expectations are suffered, plight, trapped, uncounted - at least, those are the words I would pick.

Women were expected to be just the perfect housewives, and nothing more, which was beginning to change at the time.