Read the following passage:
"Mr. Vance sat behind the counter of the dry-goods store, his fingers moving rhythmically over the brass pans of the old balancing scales. Though the brass was worn thin from decades of friction, he polished them daily with a flannel cloth, checking their alignment against the empty air. Customers knew that he would weigh their flour and sugar to the precise grain, never favoring the hungry child nor the wealthy landlord. To Vance, the scales were not merely tools of trade; they were the quiet arbiters of a chaotic world. When the town council proposed replacing them with the new spring-driven dials from the city, Vance refused, declaring that a spring could lose its temper, but gravity never lied."
In the passage, Mr. Vance's refusal to replace his balancing scales with the spring-driven dials primarily serves to symbolize which of the following?
- His commitment to an absolute, unchanging standard of justice and order in a shifting worldCevap
- BHis practical concern with the physical wear and mechanical efficiency of his store equipment
- CThe chronological transition of the town's economy from agriculture to retail trade
- DThe author's nostalgic desire to return to a pre-industrial agrarian society
- EA biblical allusion to the final judgment and the inevitability of human mortality