Question

Read this excerpt from "A Retrieved Reformation." On the Monday night after Jimmy wrote this letter, Ben Price jogged unobtrusively into Elmore in a livery buggy. He lounged about town in his quiet way until he found out what he wanted to know. From the drug-store across the street from Spencer's shoe-store he got a good look at Ralph D. Spencer. "Going to marry the banker's daughter are you, Jimmy?" said Ben to himself, softly. "Well, I don't know!" What can the reader predict based on the foreshadowing in the passage above? Ben Price will ruin Jimmy’s plan to marry Annabel. Jimmy will discover Ben Price has tracked him down. Ben Price will allow Jimmy to go free. Jimmy will use the banker’s daughter to rob the bank.

Answer 1

The foreshadowing shows that the readers can predict that A. Ben Price will ruin Jimmy’s plan to marry Annabel.

What is foreshadowing?

It should be noted that foreshadowing simply means the hints that are given in a literary work to help readers understand a story.

In this case, foreshadowing shows that the readers can predict that Ben Price will ruin Jimmy’s plan to marry Annabel. This was illustrated in the passage.

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