Part B Which of the following quotations from Life on the Mississippi best illustrates the answer to Part A? a. Before these events, the day was glorious with expectancy; after them, the day was a dead and empty thing. b. [T]wo or three wood flats at the head of the wharf, but nobody to listen to the peaceful lapping of the wavelets against them; the great Mississippi ... She is long and sharp and trim and pretty; she has two tall, fancy-topped chimneys, with a gilded device of some kind swung between them d. Then such a scramble as there is to get aboard, and to get ashore ... and such a yelling and cursing​