Read this excerpt from an essay on Sister Carrie.
Very early in the novel, Dreiser plays with the object/person dynamic Clothes, for example, stand in for people. Describing traveling salesmen
known as "drummers," Drelser writes, "Good clothes, of course, were the first essential, the things without which he was nothing."
What is missing from this paragraph?
A.
B.
a clear claim
textual evidence
explanation of how textual evidence supports a claim
C
D. nothing