Question

Read the following excerpt from “Golden Glass,” describing the stained glass object Ted has made.

The stained glass was finished and he decided to place it in his fort
facing the back fields. In fact, it looked like the back fields—trees and
the sun in a dark sky. During the day the glass sun shimmered a
beautiful yellow, the blue a much better color than the sky outside:
deeper, like night.

At the end of the story, Ted wakes up in the night and sees the stained glass “full of light”:

The little sun was a golden moon and the inside glass sky and the
outside sky matched.

What idea does the stained glass most clearly symbolize, or indirectly suggest?
A. Ted has come to feel in harmony with his world, just as the “inside” and “outside” skies now match.
B. Ted has been transformed by the night, just as the little sun has turned into a golden moon.
C. Ted has come to accept his mother, just as the “inside” and “outside” skies now match.
D. Ted has become an adult, just as the little sun has turned into a golden moon.

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Answer 1

A.

The matching of the “inside” glass sky and the “outside” sky most directly suggests that Ted’s inner life (his creation, feelings, imagination) has come into harmony with the outer world. The image of the little sun becoming a golden moon reinforces that unity rather than pointing specifically to motherhood, adulthood, or merely a nighttime transformation.