The Pit: A Story of Chicago (Excerpt) Frank Norris A young woman, Laura Dearborn, has just moved to Chicago, where she is invited to dinner by a young man. In the excerpt below, Laura describes her early impressions of the city. 1 Chicago, the great grey city, interested her at every instant and under every condition As yet she was not sure that she liked it; she could not forgive its dirty streets, the unspeakable squalor of some of its poorer neighbourhood is that sometimes developed. like cancerous growths, in the very heart of fine residence districts. The black murk that closed every vista of the business streets oppressed her, and the soot that stained linen and gloves each time she stimed abroad was a never-ending distress. 2 But the the was tremendous. All around, on every side, in every direction the vast machinery of Commonwealth clashed and thundered from dawn to dark and from dark till dawn Even now, as the car carried her farther into the business quarter, she could hear it. see it, and feel in her every fibre the trepidation of its motion. The blackened waters of the river, seen an instant between stanchions as the car trundled across the State Street bridge, disappeared under fleets of tugs,of take steamers, of lumber barges from - In paragraph 9 at the conclusion of the text, what is the intended effect of the thetorical questions on the reader? A. They are used to create a cliffhanger,leaving the reader in suspense B. They are representative of the style of writing in the early 1900s. C. They are meant to leave the reader wondering about the same issues. D. The create a visual des description of the character's expressions.