During his boyhood, the main character in john updike's "the brown chest" believes that the present is more powerful than the past. which part of the excerpt supports this statement?

a)the entire front of the house had this neglected quality, with its guest bedroom where guests hardly ever stayed

b)it held a gray-painted bed with silver moons on the headboard and corner posts shaped at the top like mushrooms

c)his mother sometimes, but not often, wrote letters and confided sentences to her diary in her tiny backslanting hand.

d)the occasional scratch of her pen exerted just enough pressure to keep away the frightening shadows, the sad spirits from long ago, locked into events that couldn't change