Question

Read the following excerpt from William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury:

As the scudding day passed overhead the dingy windows glowed and faded in ghostly retrograde. A car passed along the road outside, laboring in the sand, died away.

The author uses the word laboring to emphasize which idea?

A.
the work that the driver had completed that day
B.
the difficulty the car had in moving
C.
the dedication of the driver to the task at hand
D.
the amount of time the car had been in the shop

Answer 1

Answer: I think the answer for this is B

Explanation: I think the answer is B because most times when someone uses the word 'laboring' in a story it has to do with exhaustion, or how hard something is, and the answer is B because the story mentions a car, then sand, and the story doesn't talk about the driver's life or hard work, it talks about the car moving, so because the story is talking about the car and how it moves, it's saying that the car is having a hard time moving. Along with that, the story didn't mention the car in a shop, so the answer is B.