s respect and proper compensation for his work.
It characterizes him as someone who is materialistic and focused on his own comfort and needs.
Read the passage from The Crucible Act 1, Part 4 by Arthur Miller.
PARRIS: I do not preach for children, Rebecca. It is not the children who are unmindful of their obligations toward this ministry.
REBECCA: Are there really those unmindful?
PARRIS: I should say the better half of Salem village—
PUTNAM: And more than that!
PARRIS: Where is my wood? My contract provides I be supplied with all my firewood. I am waiting since November for a stick and even in November I had to show my frostbitten hands like some London beggar!11
GILES: You are allowed six pound a year to buy your wood, Mr. Parris.
PARRIS: I regard that six pound as part of my salary. I am paid little enough without I spend six pound on firewood.
PROCTOR: Sixty, plus six for firewood—
PARRIS: The salary is sixty-six pound, Mr. Proctor! I am not some preaching farmer with a book under my arm; I am a graduate of Harvard College.
GILES: Aye, and well instructed in arithmetic!
PARRIS: Mr. Corey, you will look far for a man of my kind at sixty pound a year! I am not used to this poverty; I left a thrifty business in the Barbados to serve the Lord. I do not fathom it, why am I persecuted here? I cannot offer one proposition but there be a howling riot of argument. I have often wondered if the Devil be in it somewhere; I cannot understand you people otherwise.
How does the subject of the firewood add to the characterization of Parris?
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It characterizes him as a hardworking man.
It characterizes him as a humble man of God.
It characterizes him as someone who deserve
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