Suppose you are writing a dramatic interpretation of this scene from a novel, but you want to set it in modern times. Which line would best replace this line from the passage?
Oh, my buttons! what a queer thing you look!

Question

Suppose you are writing a dramatic interpretation of this scene from a novel, but you want to set it in modern times. Which line would best replace this line from the passage?
 Oh, my buttons! what a queer thing you look!

anonymous · Answer

The Mill on the Floss
 




by George Eliot (excerpt)
 

"Never mind, make haste!" said Maggie, giving a little stamp with her foot. Her cheeks were quite flushed.

 The black locks were so thick, nothing could be more tempting to a lad who had already tasted the forbidden pleasure of cutting the pony's mane. I speak to those who know the satisfaction of making a pair of scissors meet through a duly resisting mass of hair. One delicious grinding snip, and then another and another, and the hinder-locks fell heavily on the floor, and Maggie stood cropped in a jagged, uneven manner, but with a sense of clearness and freedom, as if she had emerged from a wood into the open plain.

 "Oh, Maggie," said Tom, jumping round her, and slapping his knees as he laughed, "Oh, my buttons! what a queer thing you look! Look at yourself in the glass; you look like the idiot we throw out nutshells to at school."

anonymous · Answer

Goodness, that's awful. 



Oh boy! I can't believe how you look.



OMG! Your hair looks crazy. 



You're a mess!

anonymous · Answer

I want to rule out A

anonymous · Answer

I agree... Let's rule out the obvious ones, A & B. Now choose. :)

anonymous · Answer

C and D sound so similar but I guess C because they said modern times

anonymous · Answer

Correct! :D

anonymous · Answer

Thank you for the medals. :D :D :D