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Question 1
Why did Mabel "dare not look into the glass" at her reflection?
Question 2
What is "the horror" that Mabel refers to?
Question 3
Why did Mabel feel "like a dressmaker's dummy standing there, for young people to stick pins into" as she looked into the looking glass at her image?
Question 4
As she recalls her experience in Miss Milan's workroom, which of the following details from the story does not represent how Mabel felt as she initially saw herself in the dress as she looked through the looking glass?
Question 5
As Mabel enters the drawing room she sees herself "issued out into the room as if spears were thrown at her yellow dress from all sides…she looked foolish and self-conscious, and simpered like a school girl and slouched across the room, positively slinking, as if she were a beaten mongrel, and looked at a picture."
Why does Mabel think "spears were being thrown at her dress from all sides"?
Question 6
As Mabel enters the drawing room she sees herself "issued out into the room as if spears were thrown at her yellow dress from all sides…she looked foolish and self-conscious, and simpered like a school girl and slouched across the room, positively slinking, as if she were a beaten mongrel, and looked at a picture."
Why does Mabel head straight for the picture instead of talking to the other guests?