It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer. How does this opening sentence of Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper NOT immediately suggest the Gothic ?

A. The first-person narrator

B. The uncommon nature of the event

C. The dichotomy between the concepts of ordinary and estate

D. The reference to ancestral halls

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