Close Read: Analyze Craft and Structure

Identify the choice that best answers the question.

Which line of dialogue by Mrs. Van Daan in The Diary of Anne Frank, Act I, shows that she is flirtatious?

A. We'll sleep here and you take the room upstairs.
B. I don't know why I didn't meet you before I met that one there.
C. You're smoking up all our money.
D. I make the best latkes you've ever tasted!

1 answer

The line of dialogue by Mrs. Van Daan in The Diary of Anne Frank, Act I, that best shows she is flirtatious is:

B. I don't know why I didn't meet you before I met that one there.

This line implies a sense of attraction and suggests that she may have preferred to have met the other character (presumably Mr. Frank or another male character) instead of her husband, which demonstrates flirtation.