Question

Which sentence in this excerpt from The Mother's Recompense by Edith Wharton uses personification?

Answer 1

1 because fingers cant be impatient

Answer 2

Edith Wharton in her prose The Mother's Recompense uses personification to make the prose richer.

The sentence, ‘with impatient fingers she began all over again' makes use of personification.

Here, Edith Wharton is personifying fingers by giving it a lifelike quality of being impatient.

A finger although a part of the human body is not independent of it, it does not have a brain of its own or emotions of its own.

So by calling it impatient, Edith attributed human-like qualities to the finger.