Read the following excerpt from String by Alice Childress:
MAYDELLE. Oh, look at you. If you had a nice suit perhaps
none of this would have happened.
JOE. L. V. got a nice suit, he got maybe forty nice suits and
he live in a pretty white house with a lawn in the front of it..
.but he cheats.
Which statement best explains how the author uses symbolism in this
excerpt?
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A. The tension between Joe and L. V. culminates in a physical
altercation that is only broken up when the women in the play
intervene.
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B. By describing L. V.'s clothes in the same breath as his evil
behavior, Joe points out that L. V. is only good on the outside,
not on the inside.
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C. Joe stands for the general turmoil that followed the years after
the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which included riots and
assassinations.
D. With his combination of nice clothes and immoral behavior, L. V.
represents the price some African Americans paid in order to
escape poverty.