"the light was blue from cornelia's silk lampshades. no sort of light at all, just frippery. you had to live forty years with kerosene lamps to appreciate honest electricity. she felt very strong and she saw doctor harry with a rosy nimbus around him." which statement provides the best analysis of the passage's symbolism?

"night. no one was praying for the night to pass quickly. the stars were but sparks of the immense conflagration that was consuming us. were this conflagration to be extinguished one day, nothing would be left in the sky but extinct stars and unseeing eyes." explain the images included in the passage. how is the use of the image of night contradictory to how we might expect it to be used