These lines, so typical of Austen’s wry tone, allow Austen to “criticize social conversation as pointless and insincere” and “reveal Lady Middleton's character as superficial and proud”. This passage shows how social conversations are not necessary as they don't provide relevant information and people just uses them to talk about insignificant details and to avoid uncomfortable silence. The author also describes the personality of Lady Middleton as being superficial and how she uses her son to start an irrelevant talk.
the first answer is C and the second is D
I am going to go with C (simple sentence) on this one because after the and you do not have another complete sentence therefore it would not be considered a complex sentence. Hopefully this helps.
