5. Why does Babbitt regret having greeted
Doppelbrau "with more cordiality than he
had intended” (lines 19-20) ?
(A) He prefers not to show his emotions.
(B) He does not want to mislead his neighbor.
(C) He and Doppelbrau are competitors.
(D) He disapproves of his neighbor.
(E) He likes to be precise.

b

Explanation:

henry david thoreau and ralph warren emerson earned the name transcendentalists.you could assume that transcendentalists come from a well educated background from people that were alive before the american civil war.these people, mostly new englanders, mostly around boston, were attempting to create a uniquely american body of literature. it was already decades since the americans had won independence from england. and so they deliberately went about creating literature, essays, novels, philosophy, poetry, and other writing that were clearly different from anything from england, france, germany, or any other european nation.another way to look at the transcendentalists is to see them as a generation of people struggling to define spirituality and religion in a way that took into account the new understandings their age made available.