Although they couldn't spend much money, Curtis and Erica each wanted to purchase a meaningful wedding anniversary gift for the other. Erica's most beloved
possession was an original painting she had always wanted professionally framed.
Curtis treasured an antique microscope with a cracked lens that required extensive
repairs. After some deliberation, Erica sold her painting to pay for the microscope
repairs. But she returned home with the cash to discover the microscope was gone.
Curtis had just sold it to purchase a frame for Erica's painting.
How does the author employ archetypes to develop the characters in the passage?

Read the following excerpt from "dark tower" by claude mckay before you choose your answer. "we shall not always plant while others reap the golden increment of bursting fruit, nor always countenance, abject and mute, that lesser men should hold their brothers cheap; not everlastingly while others sleep shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute, not always bend to some more subtle brute. we were not made eternally to weep. the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark, white stars, is no less lovely being dark; and there are buds that cannot bloom at all in light, but crumple, piteous, and fall. so in the dark we hid the heart that bleeds, and wait, and tend our agonizing needs." in context, the expression "the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark,/ white stars, is no less lovely being dark; " is best interpreted as a. the light of the stars overpowers the black of night b. the black of night overpowers the light of the stars c. black and white contribute equally to the beauty of the night sky d. black and white continuously compete for prominence in the night sky