Passage
Lord Roderick’s public disposition was marked by a fastidious, almost glacial rectitude that his contemporaries frequently mistook for arrogance, though it was in truth a protective armor forged during his youth. Yet, in the privacy of his estate, this austere veneer dissolved completely, exposing a temperament characterized by an almost pathological indecisiveness regarding even the most trivial domestic arrangements. While he could command an empire's fleet with resolute authority, he found himself utterly paralyzed when selecting the color of a library curtain or the scheduling of his daily rides. This paralyzing hesitation was not born of indifference, but rather of an agonizingly acute appreciation for the potential aesthetic disharmony of any choice he might make. To his butler, who observed these silent crises daily, Roderick’s internal state was not one of haughty detachment, but of a quiet, persistent vulnerability—a hypersensitivity to the external world that rendered him incapable of selecting a single course of action without mourning the options he was forced to abandon.
Question
According to the passage, Lord Roderick's behavior regarding minor domestic matters is characterized by which of the following traits?
- AA haughty and detached arrogance when interacting with his private servants
- BAn apathy toward his daily routine stemming from a disregard for visual balance
- A profound and disabling difficulty in resolving minor household choicesCevap
- DA vulnerability that he only developed late in life after commanding the empire’s fleet