What is the intended contrast between Lydia's view of Mr. Whiteaker's offer and the reader's view?

How does a wilted rose represent/symbolizes dark romanticism

Need on this. its about integrating sources, quoting, and paraphrasing. (free 15 points! < 3)

Read the excerpt from the odyssey. then, his chores being all dispatched, he caught another brace of men to make his breakfast, and whisked away his great door slab to let his sheep go through—but he, behind, reset the stone as one would cap a quiver. the use of the epic simile in this excerpt readers understand that— they cyclops has eaten another bunch of odysseus men. odysseus and his men are still trapped inside the cave. the enormous stone is easily and routinely moved my the giant cyclops the cyclops takes his sheep out to pasture with him in the mornings