Read the excerpt from "the gift of the magi."
"don't make any mistake, dell," [jim] said, "about me. i don't think there's anything in the way of a haircut or a shave or a shampoo that could make me like my girl any less”
jim’s quote expresses the theme that 

Which revision of this sentence best uses direct characterization?

It's to know your purpose before you read something because a purpose can:

Read this passage from william faulkner's the sound and the fury: i says no i never had university advantages because at harvard they teach you how to go for a swim at night without knowing how to swim and at sewanee they dont even teach you what water is. i says you might send me to the state university; maybe i'll learn how to stop my clock with a nose spray and then you can send ben to the navy i says or to the cavalry anyway, they use geldings in the cavalry. which best describes the narrator's tone in this passage? a. bitter b. angry c. sarcastic d. all of the above