Read the excerpt from “Two Kinds.”

And after seeing my mother’s disappointed face once again, something inside of me began to die. I hated the tests, the raised hopes and failed expectations. Before going to bed that night, I looked in the mirror above the bathroom sink and when I saw only my face staring back—and that it would always be this ordinary face—I began to cry. Such a sad, ugly girl! I made highpitched noises like a crazed animal, trying to scratch out the face in the mirror.

What is the effect of the simile on the text?

It demonstrates how poorly the narrator is treated by her mother.

It reveals the violent side of the narrator’s personality.

It shows the narrator struggling to contain her emotions.

It emphasizes the narrator’s desperation to please her mother.