Question

When Straddlers enter white collar jobs, they get lost because:

• A. they are thrown into an alien value system.
• B. their families have not read the rules in corporate manuals.
• C. they have no one to guide them through the corporate maze.
• D. they miss the 'mom and pop orthodoxy'.

Answer 1

The correct option is A they are thrown into an alien value system.

Straddlers are thrown into a system which is foreign to them (option a) - this is the key idea conveyed by the author in the last three paragraphs. Option (b) clearly holds no meaning considering the theme of the passage. On reading the 4^th paragraph, option (c) might not always be true. While option (d) is true, it is not the primary explanation as to why Straddlers get lost after entering white-collar jobs.

Hence, the correct answer is option (a).