According to Friedan, what was "the silent question"? O Do you have pain?
Do you want to get a job?
Is this all?
Is there any opportunity for women?

this all? It's the silent question that the middle-class women in the 1950s and 1960s could never ask; but because of that, they suffered immensely. This question can be rephrased like this: is family, children, and the kitchen all there is to a woman's life? Can't she hope to achieve anything else beyond the chores and duties of a mother and a housewife?</span>

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hey! what was the rest of the question?

a term is used to describe a sudden revelation in a short story is "showing forth".