Which underlying theme of the novel The Displaced Person by Flannery O'Connor is evident in these lines?

She began to imagine a war of words, to see the Polish words and the English words coming at each other, stalking forward, not sentences, just words, gabble gabble gabble, flung out high and shrill and stalking forward and then grappling with each other.

A. the glorification of the past

B. language as an instrument for violence

C. disgust with the world

D. the loneliness of moving workers

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Maeve Odonnell

4 December, 14:51

Which underlying theme of the novel The Displaced Person by Flannery O'Connor is evident in these lines?

She began to imagine a war of words, to see the Polish words and the English words coming at each other, stalking forward, not sentences, just words, gabble gabble gabble, flung out high and shrill and stalking forward and then grappling with each other.

A. the glorification of the past

B. language as an instrument for violence

C. disgust with the world

D. the loneliness of moving workers

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Christopher Briggs · Answer 1

If you look at the title of the novel, it already gives you a hint that it's about a person who had to chance places, move from one place to another and presumably misses their home. The mixture of languages - the old and the new one - show the loneliness, as she probably can't communicate to anyone, since her sentences are unintelligible to other people - so the correct answer would be D.