Question

Refer to Explorations in Literature for a complete version of this story.

Which excerpt from "Everything That Rises Must Converge" best shapes the theme that we always hurt the ones we love?

"'Wait here, wait here!' he cried and jumped up and began to run for help toward a cluster of lights he saw in the distance ahead of him."

"'I hate to see you behave like this,' he said. 'Just like a child. I should be able to expect more of you.'"

"A tide of darkness seemed to be sweeping her from him. 'Mother!' he cried. 'Darling, sweetheart, wait!'"

"He was looking into a face he had never seen before. 'Tell Grandpa to come get me,' she said."

Answer 1

The excerpt from "Everything that rises must converge" that best shape the theme that we always hurts the ones we love is B. "'I hate to see you behave like this,' he said. 'Just like a child. I should be able to expect more of you.'"

The narrator is lecturing his mother for acting inappropriately, and in that moment she dies.