Yet, I think that he feels a particular sadness of the state of affairs that envelop the modern body politic, "the unknown citizen." Auden sees a collusion between business, technology, and government as having reduced the complexity of the citizenry to patterned and predictable conformity.
Scout's teacher is frustrated because she does not know what to do with her. Miss Caroline expected to be teaching her class as a whole. She never thought about the individuality of the students she would be educating.
Answer:
Could be either.
Explanation:
Maybe there <u>were</u> a million people at the mall today!
Maybe there were not a million people at the mall today but there were a lot!
Sorry if that wasn't helpful. I was just stating facts!