Answer: <span>4) The jar was gray and bare.
It should be that the word gray represents barrenness and the word bare refers to emptiness as their literal interpretation. As used in the modernist poetry, the jar connotes modern life in the midst of hollowness.</span>
Major Kovaloff believes that witchcraft is what took his nose.
He knows a woman that wanted to marry her daughter to him, but he had often rejected. He thinks that to get her revenge, she "must have hired
some witches to spirit it away," which is the only way he could think his nose could have possibly disappeared.
The answer would be hearkens which means "to listen"
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