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I've used italics and /'s to show the choices for this question.
In most <em>/American homes, family time is replaced with TV time.
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<em>/In most American homes, family time is replaced with TV time.
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In most American homes, family time <em>/is replaced with TV time./</em>
I believe the answer to be
<em>/In most American homes, family time is replaced with TV time.
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As established in the quote "It is not a mere business; it is not even mere cynicism. It is mysticism; the horrible mysticism of money." The correct answer is option A. It emphasizes how money, the adoration of millionaires, and the desire for success can be horrible because they all promote greed. Because the quote emphasizes in the mysticism of money, it states that it is not only business, it is about the horrible mysticism of money. If we identify the meaning of mysticism, we can see that it is very related to the spiritual, it is to believe and defend realities coming from the paranormal, the religious or the spiritual. <u>Option A establishes that money is the adoration of millionaires, which is including the mystical in the man - money relationship, likewise, assures that the horrible thing about the desire for success or being a millionaire is that it finally becomes greed for having more.</u>
The theme of this story may be somewhere in the lines of "live your life to the fullest, don't waste any opportunities".
Wharton uses irony to express and convey this idea of living life and being free. For example, the writer mentions that the woman in the story hadn't had the chance of people envying her wedding presents (while her husband was very sick and in bed rest) This meant that she was more worried about living her life and people knowing she was a newlywed than her husband actually dying.
The story describes how this woman felt life hadn't been fair with her and she only wanted to live life up to its fullest, regardless of her surroundings and what was happening to her.
