Question

adapted from The Mill on the Floss
by George Eliot

"Never mind, make haste!" said Maggie, giving a little stamp with her foot. Her cheeks were quite flushed.
The black locks were so thick, nothing could be more tempting to a lad who had already cut a pony's mane. I speak to those who know the satisfaction of making a pair of scissors meet through a duly resisting mass of hair. One grinding snip, and then another and another, and the hinder-locks fell heavily on the floor, and Maggie stood cropped in a jagged, uneven manner, but with a sense of clearness and freedom, as if she had emerged from a wood into the open plain.
Maggie felt an unexpected pang. She had thought beforehand chiefly at her own deliverance from her teasing hair and teasing remarks about it, and something also of the triumph she should have over her mother and her aunts by this very decided course of action; she didn't want her hair to look pretty,—that was out of the question,—she only wanted people to think her a clever little girl, and not to find fault with her.
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How does Maggie challenge the societal norms of her time?
A.
by cutting a pony's mane
B.
by cutting her hair short
C.
by finding fault in others
D.
by wanting to look pretty

Answer 1

B. by cutting her hair short

Maggie challenges societal norms of her time by cutting her hair short, which was often seen as unconventional and a deviation from the traditional expectations of femininity and beauty.