The author calls miss lottie’s house "the most ramshackle of all our ramshackle homes." it has "rickety frame siding," and is a "gray, rotting thing with no porch." also, miss lottie’s "queer-headed son" sitting on a "squeaky rocking chair" adds to the setting.
what can the reader infer based on this description?

a) miss lottie wants her son to repair her house, but he is lazy.
b)the children look up to miss lottie with respect.
c) miss lottie is old and feeble.
d)miss lottie has a low social standing within the community and the children do not fear her.

Millicent sat down at her desk in the big study hall. tomorrow she would come to school, proudly, laughingly, without lipstick, with her brown hair straight and shoulder length, and then everybody would know, even the boys would know, that she was one of the elect. teachers would smile , thinking perhaps: so now they've picked millicent arnold. i never would have guessed it. —"initiation," sylvia plath what inference can be made about millicent from the way she is characterized indirectly? millicent is a student with straight brown hair. millicent does not usually take care of her appearance. millicent has not always been popular.