Which author willingly accepts her lot in life and focuses on her work?

• A. Zora Neale Hurston
• B. Ernest Hemingway
• C. E.B. White
• D. John Steinbeck

Answer: (A)

Understanding this question means sensing an author's stance toward her life and her commitment to writing. Zora Neale Hurston embodies a willingness to accept the conditions she faced and to devote herself to her work. She pursued fieldwork, folklore collection, and fiction with steady focus, valuing craft and voice as the means to express dignity and truth in Black experience. Her career illustrates turning the realities of her life into disciplined, vocation-driven writing, even when recognition or resources were scarce. The other authors tend to emphasize different concerns—struggle, social critique, or wit—rather than a sustained focus on craft within given life circumstances. So Hurston best fits the idea of embracing her situation and channeling it into her writing.