Answer: what? Suzanne Collins?
Explanation:
Intellectual dreamer is the best characteristics that symbolizes Carol. The other choices do not symbolize Carol in the excerpt because he is a smart person that has many dreams.
The way that Mary Shelley used to tell the Frankenstein story sometimes goes a story into a story and so on, this way the moment in which the Frankenstein creature is brought to life is not explicitly described, the nature of his creation maintain as mysterious and this captivates the reader interest for the story, the answer is Preserve the mystery of its creation.
Hope I’m not too late but it means loss of hope or to be without hope