"He wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people—he wanted the glittering things themselves. Often he reached out for the best without knowing why he wanted it—and sometimes he ran up against the mysterious denials and prohibitions in which life indulges."
These sentences foreshadow his possession with Judy. The sentences say that he wanted things themselves and he liked the best of them.
B because there is no way to separate that sentence into two different sentences without one sentence being incorrect
The answer is D I do believe
He was taken in
the rule is obj+was/were+ pp
I would help you out if I knew who those people were.