Question

As the discussion continues, they move on to the motivations of George in the following excerpt.

“Everything. Where before they had a Santa Claus now they have a Scrooge. Children prefer Santa. You’ve let this room and this house replace you and your wife in your children’s feelings. This room is their mother and father, far more important in their lives than their real parents. And now you come along and want to shut it off. No wonder there’s hatred here. You can feel it coming out of the sky. Feel that sun. George, you’ll have to change your life. Like too many others, you’ve built it around creature comforts. Why, you’d go hungry tomorrow if something went wrong in your kitchen. You wouldn’t know how to cook an egg. All the same, turn everything off. Start new. It’ll take time. But we’ll make good children out of bad in a year, wait and see.”

What can you infer about George’s motivation to remove technology from the home based on the details in the text?
Question 3 options:

George is motivated to remove technology because his children don't know how to cook.


George wants to remove technology in order to help his children and wishes to be more of a father figure to them than before.


George will remove technology but doesn't think it will help his children become better people.


George wants to remove technology because his children are failing in their academic studies.

Answer 1

George wants to remove technology in order to help his children and wishes to be more of a father figure to them than before.

The speaker explicitly says the house (and its technology) has replaced George and his wife in the children's lives and urges him to "turn everything off" and "start new" so they can "make good children out of bad"—showing his motivation is to restore parental influence and improve the children, not the other options.