What is the theme of this poem?
A) Life is better when you are old.
B) The shepherd is nice to his love.
C) Life is better when you are young.
D) People often lie to get what they want.

D. People often lie to get what they want.

Explanation:

d.) then bernice winced as marjorie tossed her own hair over her shoulders and began to twist it slowly into two long blond braids until in her cream-colored negligée she looked like a delicate painting of some saxon princess. fascinated, bernice watched the braids grow. heavy and luxurious they were, moving under the supple fingers like restive snakes—and to bernice remained this relic and the curling iron and a to-morrow full of eyes.