Excerpt from the necklace
guy de maupassant

when she sat down to dinner at her round table with its three-day-old cloth, and watched her husband opposite her lift the lid of the soup tureen and exclaim, delighted: "ah, a good homemade beef stew! there's nothing " she would visualize elegant dinners with gleaming silver amid tapestried walls peopled by knights and ladies and exotic birds in a fairy forest; she would think of exquisite dishes served on gorgeous china, and of gallantries whispered and received with sphinx-like smiles while eating the pink flesh of trout or wings of grouse.

she had no proper wardrobe, no jewels, nothing. and those were the only things that she loved--she felt she was made for them. she would have so loved to charm, to be envied, to be admired and sought after.

which statement best supports the author's point of view?
a) the husband is bored with his life.
b) the wife should prepare better meals.
c) the husband should to prepare dinner.
d) the wife is not satisfied with her present life.