Question

Read this passage from Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary: She wanted to learn Italian; she bought dictionaries, a grammar, and a supply of white paper. She tried serious reading, history, and philosophy. Sometimes in the night Charles woke up with a start, thinking he was being called to a patient. "I'm coming," he stammered; and it was the noise of a match Emma had struck to relight the lamp. But her reading fared like her piece of embroidery, all of which, only just begun, filled her cupboard; she took it up, left it, passed on to other books. Which best describes the narrator's tone in the last line of this passage? A. judgmental B. patronizing C. hilarious D. sympathetic

Answer 1

I think it would be B because if you search up what patronizing means it kind of goes with what the story is saying.

Answer 2

A. Judgmental

Step-by-step explanation:

"But her reading fared like her piece of embroidery, all of which, only just begun, filled her cupboard; she took it up, left it, passed on to other books."

Emma was, at first, dedicated to learning Italian, but over time she became disinterested/lazy again.