The last sentence. It should be "And there the sunny gates are of serpent heaven"
<span>The statements which explain how the excerpt above contributes to the theme of gender role reversal are the following:</span><span>
The acts by Gualtieri are based on his emotions and fears rather than his sense or logic.
</span><span>Griselda praises both the young girl and her brother equally.
The ladies have no power of their own and can only make requests of Gualtieri.</span>
He's trying to explain what exactly motivated him, particularly in the second paragraph. It was none of the things that would motivate someone to commit murder. Gain of any kind was out of the question. Feelings were not the motive. Nothing the old man had motivated him.
It was just his eye. So he's in a battle with himself. (That's the first answer).
We are leading up to something and we need to have a background. This is not the climax or the resolution. It is not the falling action -- just the opposite. It is the build up towards the climax.
So the only thing it can be is the exposition which is the second answer.
The mother felt it was the child's fault for everything so the child suffered for it
