Answer: In his lifetime, Ralph Waldo Emerson became the most widely known man of letters in America, establishing himself as a prolific poet, essayist, popular lecturer, and an advocate of social reforms who was nevertheless suspicious of reform and reformers.
Explanation:
The most accurate way to describe the excerpt is to choose the option - it is a dependent clause. This means that something needs to be added - you need to finish the sentence so that it becomes an independent clause, and not a subordinate one.
He pride's himself as a wine taster and Montessor uses this against him. Additionally when they head into the catacombs Fortunato refuses to back out even he is dizzy and is drunk.