There was no such luxury as a room of one’s own, for apartments had to be shared with paying boarders. Sometimes the beds themselves had to be shared. There were rooms, including kitchens, whose floors were covered wall to wall with mattresses, each serving two or three, male boarders in one room, women in another, and it was not unheard of for people to sleep in shifts, those who worked at night taking turns with those who worked by day. When a household ran out of mattresses, two kitchen chairs with a board laid across them served as a bed. The conditions were .

Read this excerpt from welty's "a visit of charity": "i'm a campfire i have to pay a visit to some oldlady," she told the nurse at the desk. this was a woman ina white uniform who looked as if she were cold; she hadclose-cut hair which stood up on the very top of her headexactly like a sea wave. marian, the little girl, did not tell herthat this visit would give her a minimum of only threepoints in her score."acquainted with any of our residents? " asked the nurse.she lifted one eyebrow and spoke like a man.which narrative technique does welty use to slow the pace of the story in thispassage? oa. limited descriptionsob. a gloomy settingoc. short sentencesod. complex sentences