Consider This Excerpt from the Article: "On the One Hand

question 21

Multiple Choice

Consider this excerpt from the article: "On the one hand, they value their romances highly because the act of reading them literally draws (them) away from their present surroundings. Because they must produce the meaning of the story by attending closely to the words on the page, they find that their attention is withdrawn from concerns that plague them in reality." Who is Janice Radway referring to when she uses "they" and "them"?

• A) all Americans
• B) women
• C) children
• D) the elderly

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