Please do not take my word on this because i am no 100% sure but i think it is B because he is using a metaphor to compare his life to crystal stairs.
In "The Storyteller", by Saki, the theme that is best supported by the story the bachelor tells is <em>Pride comes before a fall.</em>
There are three children with their aunt on a train. They are boisterous. She tries to entertain them with a story about a good girl to whom good things happen. As the children are bored by it the bachelor, who travels in the same train tells them a story about a girl who is "horribly good". She has a lot of medals pinned in her dress and a wolf finds her because her medals make noise. Excessive pride comes before something bad makes you realize that you are not so good.
Answer:
Listen, pay attention, hear, attend, acknowledge
, concentrate on hearing
,
give ear to
, lend an ear to
, hang on someone's words, concentrate on, be attentive, harken, hark, to hear something with thoughtful attention.
Answer: His father got fired from his job. His father then sat at home drinking and Scott looked at his father as almost a failure.
