WYSIWYG = What You See Is What You Get
The phrase "she turned white for just a moment," from the short story <em>The Gift of the Magi</em>, means she was afraid of something. In this case, she was afraid of her husband Jim's reaction.
She didn't have money to buy him a Christmas present, so she decided to sell her hair for 20 dollars. Later on that day, when she noticed her husband was arriving to the house, she got worried that he would think she wasn't pretty anymore.
The correct answer is C.
Even though the man was annoyed by the blows at the begining, eventually he grew accustomed to them. After five years of being hit continuously, even during his sleep, the man is now scared that the man hitting him might disappear one day, taking the familiar blows with him.
