Soru

Read the following passage carefully:

Mrs. Hallowell sat by the cold hearth, her hands clasped tightly over a lace handkerchief that had long since lost its perfume. Clara moved between the wardrobe and the trunk with a light, rhythmic step that seemed to strike a chord of resentment in her mother’s chest.
"You pack as if you are embarking on a holiday, Clara," Mrs. Hallowell said, her voice dry as autumn leaves. "You forget that the black soot of Coketown does not wash easily from the skin, nor does the din of the ironworks leave the ears once it has settled there."
Clara did not turn around. She folded a silk bodice—a vibrant green that seemed entirely out of place in the dim room—and laid it gently in the chest. "Edward says the city is a hive of progress. He says we cannot remain buried in the peat of this county forever."
"Edward is a man of the new age, and like all men of his kind, he believes the earth exists only to be quarried," Mrs. Hallowell retorted. She stood, her tall figure casting a shadow over the trunk. "You think yourself a queen entering her new domain, but you are merely descending. You are the seed being carried off into the dark, and you expect the soil here to remain fertile in your absence. I tell you, Clara, when the winter of this house sets in, no amount of Edward’s coal will warm it."
Clara paused, her hand hovering over a small volume of poetry. A faint shiver passed through her shoulders, but when she turned, her face was composed. "I am not going to my grave, Mother. I am going to a home of my own making."
"To a place where the sun is choked by smoke and the river runs thick with oil," Mrs. Hallowell whispered, looking past her daughter toward the window. "It is a bargain made with a king of dust. You will look back at these hills and find them barren, and you will wonder why you surrendered the light for a crown of iron."

In the passage, the allusions and structural parallels to the myth of Demeter and Persephone primarily serve to do which of the following?