Read this passage from "The Chrysanthemums" by John Steinbeck:
Elisa took off her gloves and stuffed them in the apron
pocket with the scissors. She touched the under edge of
her man's hat, searching for fugitive hairs. "That sounds
like a nice kind of a way to live," she said.
Which method of characterization does Steinbeck use to describe Elisa?
O
A. Appearance
O
B. Action
O
C. Thoughts
O
D. Dialogue
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Characterization refers to the way an author of a story represents a character to his readers. Throughout the story, we discover various details about its characters, from their physical appearance to what other characters think about them. There are two kinds of characterization:

Direct (explicit) characterization - the narrator, protagonist, or another character describes the character.
Indirect (implicit) characterization - the audience finds out more about the characters by observing their appearance, behavior, thought process, speech, and the way they communicate with the rest of the characters, who react to them in a certain way.

In the given excerpt from "The Chrysanthemums", Steinbeck describes what Elisa is doing, her actions: she took off her gloves, put them in the pocket, touched the under edge of her man's hat. We don't know what her appearance and thoughts are like. We also cannot say that dialogue is used here, as dialogue involves a conversation between at least two characters. We hear only Elisa's words. That is why we can confidently say that the characterization technique used here is action.

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