I believe the correct answer from the choices listed above is the second option. The best description of 19th-century American Gothic novels would be that it <span>included elements of mystery, superstition, symbolism, and the supernatural. Hope this answers the question.</span>
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They stop thinking and start to act rationally at times, questioning the peculiar circumstances.
"Neither as a boy nor as a man was he a toady, but from early youth was by nature attracted to people of high station as a fly is drawn to the light, assimilating their ways and views of life and establishing friendly relations with them. " <em>Leo Tolstoy's The Death Of Ivan Ilyich </em>
To me this seems like the answer, because it says that from early youth he had always admired those of a higher society. I am not an expert but this sentence kind of stuck out to me.