Read the excerpt from Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms . The road was crowded and there were screens of corn-stalk and straw matting on both sides and matting over the top so that it was like the entrance at a circus or a native village. Keeping in mind Hemingway’s iceberg principle, what feeling is he trying to convey by describing the scene as an “entrance to a circus or a native village”?
Answer
A
a feeling of sadness at the devastation that has been caused by violence of war
B
a feeling of joy as the narrator realizes that he is alive despite all the carnage
C
a feeling of unease as the narrator is driving into a peculiar and alien location
D
a feeling of defeat about a war that has taken so many lives and still continues on