As the concert ends, says to his aunt, "From the trembling of her face, I could well believe that before the last numbers she had been carried out where the myriad graves are…where…hope had lain down with hop and dream with dream and, renouncing, slept." What is the most significant thematic inference you can draw from this passage? (in "A Wagner Matinee")

D.

Explanation:

The given passage has been taken from a short story titled "A Wagner Matinee" written by Willa Cather. The story is about Aunt Georgiana who visits the narrator Clark. His aunt thirty years ago eloped with her lover and was coming back to Nebraska after that.

When aunt visits Clark, he takes her to the concert and at this point, the narrator states the given passage. Her aunt was not happy with the decision she made thirty years ago and pours out her heart before the narrator that she don't want to go back. From this, it can be inferred that it is hopeless to regret over the past wrong decisions made.

Thus, the correct option is D.