adapted from The Tyranny of Things
by Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris
Two fifteen-year-old girls stood eyeing one another on first acquaintance. Finally, one girl said, "Which do you like best, people or things?" The other little girl said, "Things." They were friends at once.I suppose we all go through a phase when we like things best; and not only like them, but want to possess them under our hand.
The passion for accumulation is upon us. We make "collections," we fill our rooms, our walls, our tables, our desks, with things, things, things. Many people never pass out of this phase. They never see a flower without wanting to pick it and put it in a vase, they never enjoy a book without wanting to own it, nor a picture without wanting to hang it on their walls.
They keep photographs of all their friends and photograph albums of all the places they visit. . . . Their houses are filled with an undigested mass of things, like the terminal moraine1where a glacier dumps at length everything it has picked up during its progress through the lands
Answer:
The sentence that best expresses the author's point of view that possessions can take over a home is "We make "collections," we fill our rooms, our walls, our tables, our desks, with things, things, things."
Step-by-step explanation:
Considering the passage, the sentence that "We make "collections," we fill our rooms, our walls, our tables, our desks, with things, things, things." shows that will fill or make our home with things or possessions to the extent that it feels like our home was actually built for possesions while we are the visitors or tenants in it.
Therefore in this case, the correct answer "We make "collections," we fill our rooms, our walls, our tables, our desks, with things, things, things."