Select the correct answer.
what do the following lines from anton chekhov's the proposal suggest about the setting of the play?

natalya stepanovna: then smoke. . here are the matches. . the weather is splendid now, but yesterday it was so wet that the workmen didn't do anything all day. how much hay have you stacked? just think, i felt greedy and had a whole field cut, and now i'm not at all about it because i'm afraid my hay may rot. i ought to have waited a bit. but what's this? why, you're in evening dress! well, i never! are you going to a ball, or what? —though i must say you look better. tell me, why are you got up like that?

a. natalya lives among fields in the country.
b. natalya lives in a palace in the city.
c. natalya lives in a place where it never rains.
d. natalya lives outdoors and is always cold.

i think the correct answer is b. phrase

answer: the correct answer is that he still ridicules people that look different.

explanation: in "the nose"   by nikolai gogol, the author sets up a satirical view of russian society. the book is divided into three parts and tells the story of collegiate assessor ('major') kovalyov, who gets up one morning without his nose. he later finds out that his nose has developed a life by itself, and has apparently surpassed him by attaining the rank of state councillor. the short story showcases the obsession with social rank that plagued russia after peter the great introduced the table of ranks. by allowing commoners to attain hereditary nobility through service to the state, a large population was given the chance to move up in social status. this opportunity, however, also gave way to large bureaucracies, in which many of gogol's characters worked.