Which statement most clearly illustrates yuchin's vanity in "the bane of the internet"?
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"she wrote: 'i want to let that man see how well i'm doing.' she was referring to her ex-husband."
"sister, i must have a car. yesterday minmin, our little niece, came to town driving a brand-new volkswagen.'
"you don't get it, sister. i cannot drive a chinese model. if i did, people would think i am cheap and laugh at me."
"elder sister, since you refused to me, i decided to act on my own. at any rate, i must have a car. don't be mad at me."

"You don't get it, sister. I cannot drive a Chinese model. If I did, people would think I am cheap and laugh at me."

Explanation:

In the short story, "The Bane of the Internet" by Ha Jin, this statement is written by Yuchin in an e-mail to her sister (who is also the narrator), demanding her to lend Yuchin a sum of $10,000 so that she could buy a foreign car, even if it was doubly rated (as the narrator mentions), because she didn't want to appear "cheap" by getting a Chinese car which was priced less. This sentence shows her excessive concern with her image and status, and hence clearly illustrates her vanity. Her sister realises that Yuchin had also caught the auto mania.

The other options are incorrect because:

- "a nonrestrictive clause functions as a modifier to a noun (that is an object, person or concept). these clauses can be described by the following three options: it is set off by comas, it contains a subject and a verbs and it adds nonessential information to the sentence.

for example, in "here is bill gates, who confounded microsoft software company" we can identify "who confounded microsoft software company" as a nonrestrictive clause modifying the noun bill gates. this clause can be describes as a nonrestrictive clause because it is separated by a comma, it adds nonessential information to identify who bill gates is and it must contain both a subject (who) and a verb (confounded)."

i think it's either 'to expose the corruption of the communists in russia', or 'to criticize animal brutality by communists in russia.'  

hope this ! : )