Please read the following paragraph and then write down which answer you picked and explain WHY in full sentences. Private come
But comparing even the best TV shows with Dickens, or Henry James, also suggests how much the novel can achieve
that TV doesn't even attempt. Televised evil, for instance, almost always takes melodramatic form: Our anti-heroes are
mobsters, meth dealers or terrorists. But this has nothing to do with the way we encounter evil in real life, which is why
a character like Gilbert Osmond, in "The Portrait of a Lady" is more chilling in his bullying egotism than Tony Soprano
with all his stranglings and shootings.
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QUESTION: Why does the author compare Gilbert Osmond to Tony Soprano in paragraph 5?
ANSWER CHOICES:
A. to conclude that Soprano is a more likeable character than Osmond
B. to show a counterexample to his thesis that he then refutes
C. to give clear and concrete evidence to support his thesis
D. to refer to a character in a novel that all Americans have read