How does the characterization of Easton shape the theme that life's problems and the
passage of time can change people in
unexpected ways?
Easton takes advantage of the
marshal's good nature by letting
the marshal protect him.
Although Easton and Miss Fairchild
have not seen each other in years,
they immediately converse like old
friends
Easton deceives Miss Fairchild
during the story and does not feel
guilty about it
Although Easton is still charming,
he has adopted a way of life that
would shock Miss Fairchild if she
knew.

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for e2020 the answer is c: the narrator's conflicting thoughts give this passage a fitful mood.

the major theme of langston hughes’s montages of a dream deferred is the deferred, or delayed, american dream of african americans. the poem is about how african americans failed to achieve their goals in time:

this year, maybe, do you think i can graduate?

i’m already two years late.dropped out six months when i was seven,

a year when i was eleven,

then got put back when we come north.

to get through high high school at twenty's kind of late–

but maybe this year i can graduate.

the poem also depicts how african americans had to keep postponing their needs with a hope that someday they would be able to obtain what they desired:

maybe now i can have that white enamel stove

i dreamed about when we first fell in love

eighteen years ago.

but you know,

rooming and everything

then kids,

cold-water flat and all that.

but now my daughter’s married

and my boy's most grown–

quit school to work

and where we're moving

there ain't no stove–

maybe i can buy that white enamel stove!

however, despite their deferred dreams, the poem shows the refusal of african americans to give up easily and let go of their dreams of a better life. their dreams may have been delayed, but they did not lose hope.

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