The main subject of "Editha," one of William Dean Howells's most successful and best-known short stories, is war. Howells was very much opposed to war and especially the Spanish-American War, which he considered imperialistic. He shows his dislike in his portrayal of Editha, a thoughtless, selfish young woman, idealistic but ignorant of the consequences of war.
Although is the subordinating conjunction. It is used to contrast two different thoughts into the sentence. A subordinating conjunction can begin a sentence or go in the middle. Choice B
