How is the sniper described at the beginning of the story? Why is it significant that we get two different images of him?

What point is the author trying to make by comparing the travel times of the first transcontinental railroad and the first transcontinental flight?

Is "words dying" personification? !

Which of the narrator's statements in "the yellow wallpaper" suggests that she does not think women are too frail to be intellectual? a.i verily believe she thinks it is the writing which made me sick! b.of course i didn't do a thing. jennie sees to everything now. c. i don't feel as if it was worth while to turn my hand over for anything, and i'm getting dreadfully fretful and querulous. d. so i walk a little in the garden or down that lovely lane, sit on the porch under the roses, and lie down up here a good deal.