Question

Which parts of this excerpt from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The House of Seven Gables provide direct characterization? A) he was ready to encounter an evil spirit b)Endowed with commonsense, as massive and hard as blocks of granite C)Fastened together by stern rigidity of purpose D)he followed out his original design E)On the score of delicacy, or any scrupulousness which a finer sensibility might have taught him, the Colonel, like most of his breed angeneration, was impenetrable E)He therefore dug his cellar, and laid the deep foundations of his mansion, on the square of earth whence Matthew