Answer: C) “It is simply washing one’s clean linen in public.”
Explanation: A paradox is a statement that seems absurd or self-contradictory. They are usually humorous and can be sometimes confusing. In the given excerpt from Act I of the Importance of Being Earnest, we can see a conflict in with the speaker knows where he is going to be seated and he is not happy with it. We also can see an example of paradox in the phrase “It is simply washing one’s clean linen in public" because it represents a contradiction.
