If Mrs Hamilton is upper class she would see the slaves as peasants in a way. as I do not know what the slaves may look like, if they are black you could talk about racism and the fact that in the 1950s segregation was a huge issue. blacks were used to do chores for the whites.
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The sentence that contains a dangling modifier is C) Looking through the window, the room seemed very large.
It is dangling because we don't know who the participial phrase <em>looking through the window </em>refers to. It certainly doesn't refer to the room, the room wasn't looking through the window.
He remembers the good ol' days.