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The “big double Saint-Jean cracker” that rouses Gringoire from his reverie functions as which of the following?

A.
a personification of Gringoire’s failed play

B.
a metaphorical wake-up to the realities of life

C.
an illustration of the beauty and brutality of life

D.
an allusion to the cosmic creation of the universe

E.
a symbolic interpretation of Gringoire’s brokenness

1 answer

B. a metaphorical wake-up to the realities of life