The passage describes Ethan Rome's feelings for Mattle Silver a young cousin of his wife's who has come to live in the Prome household Mattie Silver had lived under his roof for a year, and from early morning till they met at supper he had frequent chances of seeing her but
no moments in her company were comparable to those when her arm in his and her light step flying to keep time with his long stride they walked
back through the night to the farm. He had taken to the girl from the first day when he had driven over to the Flats to meet her, and she had smiec
and waved to him from the train crying out "You must be Ethant as she jumped down with her bundles, while he reflected looking over her sent
person: "She don't look much on housework but she ain't a fretter, anyhow. But it was not only that the coming to his house of a bit of hoper
young life was like the lighting of a fire on a cold hearth. The girl was more than the bright serviceable creature he had thought her. She had an eve
to see and an ear to hear he could show her things and tell her things and taste the bliss of feeling that all he imparted left long reverberations and
echoes he could wake at will.
(hom than one by dith Wharton
What does the underlined simile in the passage help the reader understand?
1. Ethan appreciates Nattie's work tending the fire in his kitchen
02 Mattie is very young and relies on Ethan for advice and comfort
Mattie's presence has brought warmth and cheer to a gloomy household
Ethan's concerns about Matties ability to do housework were unfounded

Ineed is this a good summary for unit 1 lesson 7 draft the summary for the odyssey part 1, the odyssey part 2, the odyssey part 3, or orpheus and eurydice. remember to use your own words and to focus only on important information. orpheus, ancient greek legendary hero endowed with superhuman musical skills. he became the patron of a religious movement based on sacred writings said to be his own. traditionally, orpheus was the son of a muse and oeagrus, a king of thrace. according to some legends, apollo gave orpheus his first lyre. orpheus’s singing and playing were so beautiful that animals and even trees and rocks moved about him in dance. orpheus joined the expedition of the argonauts, saving them from the music of the sirens by playing his own, more powerful music. on his return, he married eurydice, who was soon killed by a snakebite. overcome with grief, orpheus ventured himself to the land of the dead to attempt to bring eurydice back to life. with his singing and playing he charmed the ferryman charon and the dog cerberus, guardians of the river styx. hades set one condition, however: upon leaving the land of death, both orpheus and eurydice were forbidden to look back. the couple climbed up toward the opening into the land of the living, and orpheus, seeing the sun again, turned back to share his delight with eurydice. in that moment, she disappeared. a famous version of the story was related by virgil in georgics, book iv. orpheus himself was later killed by the women of thrace. the motive and manner of his death vary in different accounts, but the earliest known, that of aeschylus, says that they were maenads urged by dionysus to tear him to pieces in a bacchic orgy because he preferred the worship of the rival god apollo. his head, still singing, with his lyre, floated to lesbos, where an oracle of orpheus was established. the head prophesied until the oracle became more famous than that of apollo at delphi, at which time apollo himself bade the orphic oracle stop. the dismembered limbs of orpheus were gathered up and buried by the muses. his lyre they had placed in the heavens as a constellation. the story of orpheus was transformed and provided with a happy ending in the medieval english romance of sir orfeo. the character of orpheus appears in numerous works, including operas by claudio monteverdi , christoph gluck, and jacques offenbach; jean cocteau’s drama and film orphée; and brazilian director marcel camus’s film black orpheus. if you think it needs plz feel free to tell !