Official SAT II Literature thread

2400SAT
Tue, 11 Oct 2005 01:55:44 +0000

Can anyone remember the language that described the thief’s apraisal of the necklace? It was a casual, almost throwaway line. But he essentially guessed by the look of the chain, that it was worth 14 pounds. To me, that makes the answer choice “knows something about jewlery” a better inference than “disdain for the rich.” The latter seems too obvious to be an inference. He’s willing to steal and contemplates murder. In most of his rationalizations, the narrator directly cites either the dire circumstances of poverty, or the vapid, conspicuous consumption of the rich.

It’s a bu*****t question if this many of us are debating it.