Read the following passage from a fictional realist novel:
'In the early years of her marriage, Clara kept the silver-backed hand-mirror locked in the mahogany drawer, viewing its ornate border of ivy leaves as a confining frame that defined who she was expected to be. However, as the years passed and she began to manage the estate’s ledgers herself, she took the mirror out and placed it on her writing desk. The mirror was no longer a tool for checking her hair or assessing her youth; instead, it stood upright as a heavy paperweight holding down her correspondence, its silver back tarnished by her ink-stained fingers. When her niece visited and asked to polish the tarnished surface, Clara declined, stating that the dark patina suited the room’s sober industry far better than a bright polish.'
Which of the following transitions in Clara’s life is most clearly reflected by the shifting symbolic function of the mirror?
- Aa character whose vanity is condemned by the narrator to one whose industrial labor is directly satirized
- Ba traditional homemaker who values domestic elegance to a negligent owner who fails to maintain her household heirlooms
- a passive subject of societal expectations to an active agent of her own practical affairsCevap
- Da victim of domestic confinement to an angry rebel who actively seeks to destroy all reminders of her past marriage
- Ea vain observer of her own appearance to an isolated worker who has completely lost her sense of self-worth