Answer:
A) To foreshadow conflicts to follow in the story
Explanation:
The given excerpt is from the short story <em>Dr. Heidegger's Experiment</em><em> </em>written by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
The story tells about Dr. Heidegger and his four elderly friends who want to become young again. He gives them the water from the Fountain of Youth, and they temporarily regain their youth. The three mentioned ex-lovers of the Widow Wycherly begin competing for her attention again. In the end, in the middle of their argument, they smash the vase that contained the water, which returns them to their previous age.
Foreshadowing is a literary device in which the author gives us hints about the events that take place later in the story. By including the sentence starting with<em> It's a circumstance worth mentioning</em>, he gives us a hint that there may be some competition between these characters later on. That does come true. This is why option A is the correct one.
C. an amazing, unforgettable party
Answer:
Molly.
Explanation:
In Charles Dickens's "Great Expectations', Mr. Abel Magwitch is a convict who Pip first came in contact with at the start of the story. Magwitch had threatened and scared Pip telling him to help him or else he will be killed. This encounter starts the story, and later on, after more than two decades, they meet again. And as far as Abel Magwitch is concerned, he does not have a legal wife but was with a a mentally unstable woman named Molly. Their relationship produced a daughter who later turned out to be Estella, the adopted daughter of Miss Havisham.