What is the effect of reflection in this excerpt from theodore dreiser's "my brother paul"?
a. dreiser reflects upon his brother's good-natured personality to show how it shaped paul's dreams and ambitions.
b. dreiser reflects upon the contrast between his brother's build and personality to develop complexity of character.
c. dreiser reflects upon his brother's physical stature to compare and contrast it with his own physical weaknesses.
d. dreiser reflects upon his brother's warm and cheerful nature to demonstrate paul's optimistic outlook of life.

The correct answer is D) Dreiser reflects upon his brother's warm and cheerful nature to demonstrate Paul's optimistic outlook of life.

The effect of reflection in this excerpt from Theodore Dreiser's "My Brother Paul" is that Dreiser reflects upon his brother's warm and cheerful nature to demonstrate Paul's optimistic outlook of life.

In this part of the excerpt, Dreiser refers to his brother as "a man weighing three hundred pounds...and yet of so lithesome a build that he gave not the least sense of either undue weight or lethargy." This is how the author describes the vitality of his brother despite the overweight.

But Dreiser continues and ads: "His temperament, always ebullient and radiant, presented him as a clever, eager, cheerful, emotional and always highly illusioned person..." And Dreiser finally ads: "he was so spirited and bubbly, and emotional, and sentimental, that your fiercest moods could scarcely withstand his smile..."

So it is correct to say that the effect of reflection in this excerpt from Theodore Dreiser's "My Brother Paul" is that Dreiser reflects upon his brother's warm and cheerful nature to demonstrate Paul's optimistic outlook of life.

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it ends with a marriage, but also with prospero giving up his power.

the tempest is a play written by william shakespeare between 1610-1611, it narrates the story of prospero a magician that sets a storm to wreck a ship, this sets the story to kill the king of naples. while it is a romantic style play, it isn´t traditional because of the ending, it end with the marriage and the magician giving up his powers.