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Read the excerpt from "The Necklace."

She was one of those pretty and charming young girls who sometimes are born, as if by a mistake of destiny, into a family of clerks.

What does the phrase "a mistake of destiny" imply about Mathilde?

She was mistakenly adopted into the wrong family.

She was born to a family and financial circumstances to which she does not seem to fit.

Those who believed Mathilde to be pretty and charming were mistaken.

Mathilde comes to believe it was a mistake to borrow the necklace.

What is darrow’s main argument and the claims he makes in this excerpt? a. darrow argues that even if the boys are horrible monsters, their deaths will not solve the problems of society; he claims that society wants the boys to be executed because people enjoy watching public executions. b. he argues that the people who should be held responsible for the crime are leopold’s and loeb’s parents since they neglected their sons; he claims that leopold and loeb were jealous of the boy they killed because he had expensive belongings they could not afford. c. darrow argues that the boys should not face the death penalty; he claims they both suffer from mental illnesses that make them unable to tell the difference between a dream and reality. d. he argues that leopold and loeb, particularly dickie loeb, should not be executed; he claims they were teenagers who didn’t have proper adult guidance, so they are not responsible for what they did.