Read this excerpt from "Look Homeward, Angel." And whatever he touched in that rich fortress of his soul sprang into golden life: as the years passed, the fruit
trees-the peach, the plum, the cherry, the apple grew great and bent beneath their clusters. His grape vines
thickened into brawny ropes of brown and coiled down the high wire fences
of his lot, and hung in a dense
fabric. upon his trellises, roping his domain twice around. They climbed the porch end of the house and
framed the upper windows in thick bowers. And the flowers grew in rioting glory in his yard-the velvet-
leaved nasturtium, slashed with a hundred tawny dyes, the rose, the snowball, the redcupped tulip, and the
lily.
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The author uses sensory details in this excerpt to create images of
In materialism.
® excess and riches, to suggest Gant's interest
• shades and barriers, to suggest Gant's need for privacy.
• colorful sceneries, to suggest Gant's artistic aptitude.
bountifül harvests, to suggest Gant's agricultural success,