Read the excerpt from Notes of a Native Son. In that year I had had time to become aware of the meaning of all my father’s bitter warnings, had discovered the secret of his proudly pursed lips and rigid carriage: I had discovered the weight of white people in the world. I saw that this had been for my ancestors and now would be for me an awful thing to live with and that the bitterness which had helped to kill my father could also kill me. Which best describes the realization Baldwin has about racial prejudice in early 20th-century America? The bitterness that results from racial prejudice is a well-kept family secret. The bitterness that results from racial prejudice does not affect him. The bitterness that results from racial prejudice does not make sense. The bitterness that results from racial prejudice threatens his existence.

answer: the correct answer is that he still ridicules people that look different.

explanation: in "the nose"   by nikolai gogol, the author sets up a satirical view of russian society. the book is divided into three parts and tells the story of collegiate assessor ('major') kovalyov, who gets up one morning without his nose. he later finds out that his nose has developed a life by itself, and has apparently surpassed him by attaining the rank of state councillor. the short story showcases the obsession with social rank that plagued russia after peter the great introduced the table of ranks. by allowing commoners to attain hereditary nobility through service to the state, a large population was given the chance to move up in social status. this opportunity, however, also gave way to large bureaucracies, in which many of gogol's characters worked.

the answer is definitely the first answer: lizabeth is older now and realizes that she may not have made the best decisions.

the answer is b on edge. goodluck!