What is this about? What story is this from?
Answer:
D. Marlow, back in the city, finds the daily lives and concerns of his fellow citizens to be petty.
Explanation:
Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" centers around the character of Marlow who had gone to the African continent to meet Kurtz. This whole plot revolves around the occurrences of the journey.
The above passage is from the third part of the book where Marlow had returned back to Europe. He had no clear memory of how he got back but he is also not appreciative of the European people and their worries. He exclaims that this city looks like a tombstone, filled with "<em>people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each other, to devour their infamous cookery, to gulp their unwholesome beer, to dream their insignificant and silly dreams</em>". To him, their daily lives and concerns are so petty as compared to the things he had experienced and seen with his very own eyes.
Answer:
D.
Explanation:
A conditional mood is a request or in condition of something happening in the future; it uses auxiliary verbs.
It is not A because it is a demand and a statement.
It is not B becaus it is a demand.
It is not C because C is in condition of something that has <u>already</u> happened in the past.
It is D because it is a request.
This suggests a possibilty, whether it is through a request (requests can be denied or accepted) or scenario in which things are suggested to alter the future, even if it can't be changed.
