Nhận biết (M1)

The following text is from Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 1892 story “The Yellow Wallpaper.” The narrator, confined to a room by her physician husband, studies the wallpaper's pattern.

It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide— plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard-of contradictions.

Which choice best describes the function of the underlined portion in the text as a whole?

• A.

  It uses violent, self-destructive imagery to convey the narrator's sense that the pattern defies any rational order.

• B.

  It suggests that the narrator has begun to find the wallpaper soothing rather than irritating.

• C.

  It indicates that the narrator intends to have the wallpaper removed from the room.

• D.

  It emphasizes the narrator's professional expertise in interior decoration.