Read this excerpt from “the yellow wallpaper” and remember what you thought about the author’s purpose for writing the story. out of another i get a lovely view of the bay and a little private wharf belonging to the estate. there is a beautiful shaded lane that runs down there from the house. i always fancy i see people walking in these numerous paths and arbors, but john has cautioned me not to give way to fancy in the least. he says that with my imaginative power and habit of story-making, a nervous weakness like mine is sure to lead to all manner of excited fancies, and that i ought to use my will and good sense to check the tendency. so i try. what is most likely the author’s purpose for including this passage in her story? to show that the narrator of the story is mentally ill and her husband wants to her to examine the consequences of having too much imagination to describe what life was like for women in the 1800s to contrast the narrator’s creative mind with her husband’s strict ideas

to contrast the narrator’s creative mind with her husband’s strict ideas

Explanation:

The author contrasts the narrator’s imaginative view of the world with her husband’s restrictive, purely practical view.

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to eliminate ambiguous remote or broad reference it is necessary to focus on anaphoric reference. by definition "anaphoric reference means that a word in a text refers back to other ideas in the text for its meaning." the references should be clear and leave no room for ambiguity.

in the first case the pronoun it probably refers to the car but it has not been mentioned before so we should replace it for the car. in doing so the statement becomes clear.

in sentence number   two   the pronoun he refers to charles dickens the author. yet, the first half of the sentence is about the book a tale of two cities. to repair this it would be better to rephrase the first half : after i read   a tale of two cities by dickens, he so as to remove the remote reference.