Question

Read the excerpt.

Feld tells Sobel, “I always treated you like you was my son.”

Why is this statement from “The First Seven Years” by Bernard Malamud ironic?



a)Feld knows that Sobel is too old to be his son.


b)Feld has difficulty treating his own daughter well.


c)Feld has difficulty imagining Sobel as a son-in-law.


d)Feld knows that Sobel is in love with Miriam.

Answer 1

c)Feld has difficulty imagining Sobel as a son-in-law.

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

C) Feld has difficulty imagining Sobel as his son-in-law

The First Seven Years is a short story published by Bernard Malamud that tells the story of a shoe maker who is seraching for a husband for his daugther. Later we discover that Sobel only reason to work there was to be close to Miriam, Feld´s daughter, he wanted to marry her but Sobel doesn´t want his daughter to be a Shoemaker´s wife.