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Drupady [299]
3 years ago
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Read the following excerpt from Katherine Anne Porter's "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall":She tried to remember. No, I swear he

never harmed me but in that. He never harmed me but in that . . . and what if he did? There was the day, the day, but a whirl of dark smoke rose and covered it, crept up and over into the bright field where everything was planted so carefully in orderly rows.What is one purpose of the symbolism used in this passage?A.To compare Granny to "a whirl of dark smoke"B.To link two unlike concepts: a field and mountainsC.To make a connection between Granny and the readerD.To illustra
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Aleksandr-060686 [28]3 years ago
8 0

Answer: To illustrate the destruction of Granny's dream

Tatiana [17]3 years ago
4 0

Answer:

<em>D.)</em><em> to illustrate the destruction of granny's dream. </em>

Explanation:

When expressing something through symbolism, the author tries to imply something through abstract representation, there is a focus on what emotions or ideas the symbols used, and what they convey in the reader. In this case, the smoke is used to illustrate negativity in that memory and contrasts that negativity with the fields planted, therefore it is establishing that it negatively impacted that drEam.

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