Question

Read these lines from the passage and answer the question that follows.

'Bertie,' she said, 'you look a sight. You look perfectly dissipated.'
I was feeling like a badly wrapped brown-paper parcel. I'm never at my best in the early morning. I said so.



When Bertie says he feels like a "badly wrapped brown-paper parcel" he means that he feels

tired and out of sorts

energetic and wide awake

plain and not prepared

scared and full of dread

Answer 1

Bertie is describing subjectively his feelings in the morning, with a connotational meaning in "badly wrapped brown-paper parcel."; that is not a literal description, is a metaphoric referential that can be interpreted in the context as meaning that he feels tired and out of sorts, comparing himself in the morning to the paper in its appearance.

Answer 2

Based on the given passage above, when Bertie says he feels like a "badly wrapped brown-paper parcel" he means that he feels tired and out of sorts. Therefore, the correct answer of the given question above would be the first option: tired and out of sorts.