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Genrish500 [490]
3 years ago
5

Read this excerpt from Charles Dickens's novel Great Expectations: The most prominent object was a long table with a tablecloth

spread on it. . . . An épergne or centre-piece of some kind was in the middle of this cloth; it was so heavily overhung with cobwebs that its form was quite indistinguishable. . . .
"What do you think that is?" she asked me, again pointing with her stick; "that, where those cobwebs are?" . . .

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"It's a great cake. A bride-cake. Mine!" What does the cake most likely symbolize?
A.joy
B.respect
C.confusion
D.disappointment
English
2 answers:
Zielflug [23.3K]3 years ago
8 0

Answer: D. Disappointment.

Explanation: In the given excerpt from "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens, we can see a description of a long table with a tablecloth on it and a big object in the middle, which had a lot of cobwebs. Then we found out that the object is a wedding cake, which according to the excerpt's context, symbolizes disappointment, because with the fact that the cake is covered in cobwebs, we can infer that the wedding didn't happen.

Montano1993 [528]3 years ago
3 0

Disappointment is what the cake mostly symbolizes. The female character is pointing to a wedding-cake. It has got full of cobwebs because she was not able to get married.

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