Why does Anna Quindlen claim that "American is an improbably idea"? What reasoning does she use to support this idea?

What are the conflicts or failures America has experienced?

According to the author, how can America overcome those failures and realize its potential?

Describe Quindlen’s purpose and viewpoint in your own words. Use two pieces of evidence to support your answer.

edwards uses the phrase "o who can express what the state of a soul in such circumstances is! " in order to illustrate that this type of suffering is unimaginable. the word "express" denoted that the state of a suffering soul is required to be described by any person, but it would not happen because no one can imagine how this suffering is felt.  

-show what might happen if the reader disobeys edwards is not correct because this is described trhough the text, not by the phrase used.

-describe what endless suffering looks and feels like is not correct because this description might be the porpuse of the excerpt provided, not the porpuse of using the phrase during the writting.

-prove that few people have survived limitless suffering is not correct because it is implied that the soul of a person is already suffering and doesn't have any way to escape.