Which excerpt from "The Chrysanthemums" foreshadows Elisa's feelings of being trapped?

A. She looked toward the river road where the willow-line was still yellow with frosted leaves so that under the high grey fog they seemed a thin band of sunshine.

B. The country road ran along the dense bank of willows and cotton-woods that bordered the river.

C. On every side it sat like a lid on the mountains and made of the great valley a closed pot.

D. The thick willow scrub along the river flamed with sharp and positive yellow leaves.

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Kimberly May

3 June, 21:11

Which excerpt from "The Chrysanthemums" foreshadows Elisa's feelings of being trapped?

A. She looked toward the river road where the willow-line was still yellow with frosted leaves so that under the high grey fog they seemed a thin band of sunshine.

B. The country road ran along the dense bank of willows and cotton-woods that bordered the river.

C. On every side it sat like a lid on the mountains and made of the great valley a closed pot.

D. The thick willow scrub along the river flamed with sharp and positive yellow leaves.

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Kathleen Hawkins · Answer 1

The answer is C. On ever side sat like a lid on the mountains and made of the great valley a closed pot

Skyler Burgess · Answer 2

A) Being that she saw only a thin band of sunshine through the fog ... Unless the other answers foreshadow another we she was trapped like how C talks about the pot ...