Read the passages.
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"It'll be a real satisfaction to see that poor child wearing something decent for once. The way Marilla dresses her is positively ridiculous, that's what, and I've ached to tell her so plainly a dozen times. I've held my tongue though, for I can see Marilla doesn't want advice and she thinks she knows more about bringing children up than I do for all she's an old maid. But that's always the way. Folks that has brought up children know that there's no hard and fast method in the world that'll suit every child. But them as never have think it's all as plain and easy as Rule of Three—just set your three terms down so fashion, and the sum'll work out correct. But flesh and blood don't come under the head of arithmetic and that's where Marilla Cuthbert makes her mistake. I suppose she's trying to cultivate a spirit of humility in Anne by dressing her as she does; but it's more likely to cultivate envy and discontent. I'm sure the child must feel the difference between her clothes and the other girls'.
(from ,begin underline,Anne of Green Gables,end underline, by Lucy Maud Montgomery)
I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. If there is not a new man, how can the new clothes be made to fit? If you have any enterprise before you, try it in your old clothes. All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be. Perhaps we should never procure a new suit, however ragged or dirty the old, until we have so conducted, so enterprised or sailed in some way, that we feel like new men in the old, and that to retain it would be like keeping new wine in old bottles. Our moulting season, like that of the fowls, must be a crisis in our lives. The loon retires to solitary ponds to spend it. Thus also the snake casts its slough, and the caterpillar its wormy coat, by an internal industry and expansion; for clothes are but our outmost cuticle and mortal coil. Otherwise we shall be found sailing under false colors, and be inevitably cashiered at last by our own opinion, as well as that of mankind.
(from ,begin underline,Walden,end underline, by Henry David Thoreau)
Question
The first passage suggests that having the right clothes is important. The second passage suggests that clothing is less important than the person wearing it.
Which ,begin emphasis,most,end emphasis, accurately illustrates the contrasting ideas in the two passages?
Answer options with 4 options
1.
The speaker in the first passage says "flesh and blood don't come under the head of arithmetic," while the author of the second passage thinks that all men want something to do.
2.
The speaker in the first passage thinks that the way Anne is dressed will set her apart from the other girls, while the author of the second passage compares wearing new clothes to "sailing under false colors."
3.
The speaker in the first passage says that the way Anne is dressed is ridiculous, and the author of the second passage suggests that wearing old clothes is like keeping new wine in old bottles.
4.
The speaker in the first passage thinks Marilla is trying to raise Anne to be humble by dressing her plainly, while the author of the second passage suggests trying new things in old clothes.
3.
The speaker in the first passage says that the way Anne is dressed is ridiculous, and the author of the second passage suggests that wearing old clothes is like keeping new wine in old bottles.