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Read this excerpt from "Gravity" by Judith Ortiz Cofer:It was my clothes that visibly upset him. He could not keep himself from staring at my waist-long hair worn loose and wild but encircled, for decoration, by a headband embroidered in Navajo designs. I also wore bell-bottom blue jeans torn and faded just right, and the orange sunburst tie-dye t-shirts, once his undershirts, in fact, which I had borrowed from the clothesline to experiment with.Which of the narrator's main character traits does the passage most clearly develop?A.Her desire to embrace her Native American rootsB.Her desire to become a fashion modelC.Her total abandonment of her religious faithD.Her need to exercise her self-expression

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D.Her need to exercise her self-expression
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Answer: D. Her need to exercise her self-expression.

In this excerpt, the speaker demonstrates her need to exercise her self-expression. The speaker describes her way of dressing. This is characteristic of youth in the 1970s: waist-long hair, hairband, bell-bottom blue jeans and tie-dye t-shirts. This shows that the speaker identifies herself with the young counterculture of the time. However, we know that her family is more traditional. Therefore, it is likely that her taste will clash with that of her family.