Answer:
D) Tom does not want Mary’s mood to make him feel better.
Explanation:
As a result, he couldn't bear to have any worldly happiness or irritating pleasure intrude on this luxury of petting his sorrows. Rather than be affected, influenced, or cheered by Mary's happy mood, Tom would prefer to wallow in his sorrows.
The greatest part of the faery handbag is that there's a wrong way to open it — meaning a dangerous way, a way that can eat you alive. And it's that third compartment or “way of opening up” that separates the magical realism of childhood stories from the magical realism of stories for adults
Walking into a confusing and deafening prison life would be scary, but
walking into a shark tank prison would be terrifying!