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
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.
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.
Each main idea should be supported by two pieces of proof or evidence. However, this may vary per teacher and sometimes they may want three pieces of evidence. Most of the time though the standard answer is two.
