Question

in paragraph 9, the author writes, there was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully. what was it? she did not know, it was too subtle and elusive to name. which of the following best describes what the expression subtle and elusive means? a challenging b disturbing c not memorable d difficult to grasp the story of an hour by kate chopin knowing that mrs mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husbands death. it was her sister josephine who told her, in broken sentences; veiled hints that revealed in half - concealing. her husbands friend richards was there, too, near her. he had been in the newspaper office when intelligence of the railroad disaster was received, with brently mallards name leading the list of killed. he had only had time to assure himself of its truth by a second telegram, and had hastened to forestall any less careful, less tender friend in bearing the sad message. she did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. she wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sisters arms. when the storm of grief had spent itself she

Explanation:

"Subtle" means fine - grained, not obvious, and "elusive" means difficult to find, catch, or understand. So together they mean difficult to grasp.

Answer:

D. difficult to grasp