Question

Fill in the blank with a suitable option:
Lady Bertram is best described as _______________.

• A. a social pariah
• B. an unwanted family member
• C. a disenfranchised member of society
• D. a gossipy aristocrat
• E. a disillusioned elderly woman

Answer 1

Answer: (D)

a gossipy aristocrat

In the given context of the passage, no other choice fits except option D.

"...Lady Bertram, that she was out of luck in having such a capital piece of Mansfield news, as the certainty of the Grants going to bath, occur at a time when she could make no advantage of it,...very mortifying to her to see it fall to the share of their thankless son, and treated as concisely as possible at the end of a long letter, instead of having it to spread over the largest part of a page of her own."- this sentence further supports the claim that Lady Bertram is a gossipy aristocrat and not a social pariah or an unwanted family member or any of the other things that the choices described. So, the correct answer is D.