Answer:
A) To foreshadow conflicts to follow in the story
Explanation:
The given excerpt is from the short story <em>Dr. Heidegger's Experiment</em><em> </em>written by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
The story tells about Dr. Heidegger and his four elderly friends who want to become young again. He gives them the water from the Fountain of Youth, and they temporarily regain their youth. The three mentioned ex-lovers of the Widow Wycherly begin competing for her attention again. In the end, in the middle of their argument, they smash the vase that contained the water, which returns them to their previous age.
Foreshadowing is a literary device in which the author gives us hints about the events that take place later in the story. By including the sentence starting with<em> It's a circumstance worth mentioning</em>, he gives us a hint that there may be some competition between these characters later on. That does come true. This is why option A is the correct one.
You can use this as an example x
Household chores are the things which I can’t avoid. Every day I make my bed, wash up the dishes, wipe the dust of the furniture and take out me rubbish. But I share my household chore with my brother. It is a great thing, to my mind. If I had no brother I have to clean up the flat on my own, but it is an awful thing. I don’t like to draw my mother in doing the house because she usually has to do a lot of other things like cooking, washing, ironing and mending and it is enough for her I think. It is also my duty to buy bread and milk every day. I usually go to the baker’s after my classes. I buy some white and brown bread, biscuits and cakes there. The shop is not far from our house and it doesn’t take me a lot of time to do everyday shopping. But as I am busy with my studies I have no time to do it constantly. My parents understand it and sometimes it’s my mother who buys bread. When my mother is ill or away from home my father do the cooking, the buying of food and the planning of meals, but I do the washing up and ironing.
Answer:
Max and Miriam stop dating, Feld’s new assistant steals from the shop, and Feld has a heart attack.
Explanation:
<em>The First Seven Years </em>by Bernard Malamud tells the story of a shoemaker named Feld and his relationship between the suitors of his daughters. He wants a better life for them and seeks to find a more suitable husband for them.
Feld approves of Max who is an intellectual and arranges a date with his daughter Miriam. Unfortunately, Sobel who is Feld's assistant is also in love with Miriam and is upset that Feld does not find him worthy to marry Miriam.
Because of this, Sobel quits his job, and after things don't work out between Max and Miriam, Feld invites Sobel back and asks him to work for two more years before he can marry Miriam.
I believe it means "as a rule" in Engliah if that is what your asking.