Question

What best describes the narrators tone in the last line of this passage?

Answer 1

Answer:

I believe the best answer to this question, would be, A: Judgmental.

Explanation:

In this particular excerpt from Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert, taking the words that the speaker uses to describe how Emma is dealing with her process of learning Italian, which he compares to the way she never finishes her embroidery, but rather gives up every time she cannot overcome an obstacle, is highly judgmental. In fact, the speaker makes it very clear that neither in learning a language, nor in reading, nor in embroidery, does Emma know how to complete a task, or even tries. As soon as she finds a difficulty, she just gives up and moves on to the next challenge, without having completed the previous one.