All of the guests HAD gone to the concert in the park.
(But I think it could also be have, if you are talking about it happening in the present).
Had Lydia Greg been used an eye witness who answered when/where/how/why/who/what about the bus crash, the article would be considered the story as a headline news. With using the Five Ws would provide the details that the audience would know and same goes for the journalists.
The contrast presented here is of the typical theme of Romantic literature, <u>the conflict and resolution between man and nature.</u>
Explanation:
The given lines are a Representative of a very Romantic concern, which is the <u>difference between things that seem important and things that are empirically important.</u>
What seems important is wealth which comes from man's artifice but if one understands nature's spontaneity, they will be able to find the purity of soul within them and only find in them to appreciate art.
<u>Art deriving from nature is also a parallel theme that runs her</u>e.
The aunt was only taunting him to tell a story, probably hoping he would back down and stop criticizing her. So the answer is The aunt does not expect the bachelor to tell a story, but he does. The ironic part is that the kids get tired of him immediately
