How might understanding an author's culture affect the way a reader interprets his or her work? a. culture the reader understand personal details about the author. b. culture lets the reader know which of the characters' behaviors are normal and which are unusual. c. culture explains the literary devices that the author uses in the work, such as metaphor, simile, and hyperbole. d. culture tells the reader why the author chose to write in a particular genre.

answer; /// the above statement is (true);

femininity is conveyed through bernice's personality. she doesn't act how the other girls act and everyone thinks she is weird. she learns how to act in a way that was considered femininely appropriate at the time. she becomes so popular but her attempts to be liked end up backfiring when she is pressured into bobbing her hair. the author wrote that bernice cut off her cousin's hair in revenge for tricking her to cut her hair. this was the authors way of trying to change the way feminine is defined and the way women are expected to act.