"Nature's first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold" what does gold possibly mean in this quote?

"Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour"

Why do leaf and flower only last an hour?
"Then leaf subsides to leaf so Eden sank to grief"
What is Eden and how did it sink to grief?

since it is asking for her reaction to elnora's trouble at school you can rule out any answers with a positive response (b). then you can rule out (d), this is because it does not show the mother's reaction but the daughter's response. that leaves you with two options (a) and (c), by looking at the options you can rule out (c) because it isn't referring back to elnora's issues at school.

irving effectively uses emotional responses to create suspense in the story.irving’s tone creates expectations for the reader, which in turn create suspense.irving’s suspense would have been more effective with more vivid details.irving’s story is not suspenseful