Read the following passage carefully.

she was such a sharp little lady, and used to sit with her hands folded in each other, looking so very watchful while she talked to me that perhaps i found that rather irksome. or perhaps it was her being so upright and trim; though i don't think it was that, because i thought that quaintly pleasant. nor can it have been the general expression of her face, which was very sparkling and pretty for an old lady. i don't know what it was. or at least if i do, now, i thought i did not then. or at least—but it don't matter.
(from bleak house, chapter xxx, by charles dickens)
how do the last three sentences contribute to the passage?

they to characterize the narrator as someone too kind and shy to admit that she disliked someone.
they add valuable details to the plot.
they characterize the old lady as someone unkind and unfair.
they have no value at all.

question:

it's when i'm weary of considerations, and life is too much like a pathless wood where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs broken across it, and one eye is weeping from a twig's having lashed across it open

answer to question #1: the simile that occurs in the text given (lines 43-47) is: ''life is too much like a pathless ''

explanation: a simile is a comparison of one thing with another thing and it is used to make a vivid description. it uses like or as. in the text, we can understand that the person is feeling weary of considerations and because of this, the person compares ''life'' to ''a pathless wood''.

answer to question #2: in this text we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations and compares life to a pathless wood.

explanation: the word frost means coldness and something covered by ice crystals but looking at the comparison made in this text, we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations therefore he/she compares life to a pathless wood.

according to the options stated, the one that is correct is the second option. the author most likely includes the panel to hint at the strong bonds among his family members. besides, the image from art spiegelman’s maus is common to show and portray the innocence and naivete of the children during the holocaust as well as the fact that millions of innocent jews were rounded up and taken by train to camps.

the pronoun reference replaces a noun, but you have to make sure there's no room for confusion.

in the first sentence "her" could be referring to shely or to the sister. the answer there is "shelly called her sister and told her about the new baby."

in the second sentence "it" could be referring to the roof or the floor. the answer there is "since the roof leaks on the family room floor, we need to repair the roof."