The author might have decided to include this quote by Bly to show that Bly was an earnest reporter and was committed to reporting the truth. This highlights her dedication to uncovering the realities of treatment in asylums and her determination to provide an accurate account of the conditions faced by patients.
"Nelly Bly
Undercover"
by Dr. Howard Markel
After talking her way into the city room of the New York World, she impressed the
could have myself committed to one of the asylums for the insane in New York, with a view to writing a plain and unvarnished narrative of the treatment of the patients
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Use the excerpt from the "How Nellie Bly went undercover to expose abuse of the mentally ill" article to answer the question.
Why might the author have decided to include this quote by Bly?
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to show that Bly was capable of
• manipulating others to get what she needed
to show that Bly was unclear
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going on at the asylum
to show that Bly was an earnest
• reporter and was committed to reporting the truth
to show that Bly was a more
• talented reporter than those who worked at the paper
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