Question

Read this sentence from the story.

The lights on the avenue blurred, twinkled, blurred.

Which inference does this sentence best support?

A.
Other people are going on with their lives around Mary.

B.
Their relationship has been reignited after all of these years.

C.
Life is guiding Mary in an exciting, new direction.

D.
The new hope Mary found when she saw Bill is disappearing.

Answer 1

D. The repetition of "blurred" (with only a brief "twinkled") suggests the light — a metaphor for Mary's new hope — is fading, so her new hope is disappearing.