Question

Read the passage from Initiation.

"Remember the part about talking back and smiling," Louise Fullerton had put in, laughing. She was another celebrity in high school, pretty and dark and Vice-President of the student council. "You can't say anything unless your big sister asks you something or tells you to talk to someone. And you can't smile, no matter how you're dying to." The girls had laughed a little nervously, and then the bell had rung for the beginning of afternoon classes.

Which phrase from the passage is the best example of indirect characterization?

another celebrity in high school
pretty and dark
you can’t smile
girls had laughed a little nervously

Answer 1

"girls had laughed a little nervously"

This is indirect characterization because it shows the characters' feelings through their actions (laughing nervously) rather than directly telling the reader what they feel.