Read the passage, and then answer the question that follows.

"A peaceful vision will come, full of rest and benediction into busy and troubled hours, to those who understand why some one came to live in this place so near the sky, so silent, so full of sweet air and woodland fragrance; so beaten and buffeted by winter storms and garlanded with summer greenery; where the birds are nearest neighbors and a clear spring the only wine-cellar, and trees of the forest a choir of singers who rejoice and sing aloud by day and night as the winds sweep over."

"The Gray Man." Sarah Orne Jewett, 1886.

What is the author's purpose in choosing the text structure represented in the passage above?
A. to provide the reader with a mental image by grouping ideas
B. to write lengthy sentences for organizational purposes
C. to vary sentence construction through dialogue
D. to introduce the reader to a variety of characters