Question

Keeping in mind that this epitaph is Gray's own, how does he want to be remembered?

Answer 1

Below are the choices that can be found elsewhere:

a.as a melancholy person who nonetheless found a true love.
b.as a person who learned too late what life is for.
c.as a person who achieved worldly success but never happiness.
d.as a happy person who expected little from life.

The answer is A. 

Answer 2

He wants to be remembered as a melancholy person who nonetheless found a true love.

This question makes reference to the poem "An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard" written by Thomas Gray and published in 1751. In the conclusion of the poem, the epitaph, the poet expresses that heaven has paid him back for being a generous person.