C Candle light and moon light also cause people distress.
The mirror sees itself as truthful and exact, and therefore views candle light and moon light as liars because they distort or alter the reflection that the mirror provides. The mirror believes that it accurately reflects the woman's true self, while the candles or moon may present a false or flattering image. This is why the mirror refers to them as "liars."
I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see I swallow immediately Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike. I am not cruel, only truthful— The eye of a little god, four-cornered. Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall. It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long I think it is a part of my heart. But it flickers. Faces and darkness separate us over and over. Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me, Searching my reaches for what she really is. Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon. I see her back, and reflect it faithfully. She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands. I am important to her. She comes and goes. Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness. In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish. hat does the mirror mean in line 12 by “those liars, the candles or the moon”? A The mirror does not like to reflect candle light or moon light. B Candle light and moon light also cause people distress. C Candle light and moon light flatter images unrealistically. D The mirror has been hurt by candles in the past. and why
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