It is a testimony to Roth’s _______ that he could not quite bring himself to write a book as dull and flat as his original conception for his novel Everyman seemed to demand.
The options are:
persistence
deterioration
talent
ambition
declie
genius
Using the pairing strategy, we have talent and genius as a pair and deterioration and decline as a pair. Now, the correct answer for this question is the pair talent and genius as interpreted this way: Roth couldn’t write a dull and flat book even as he tried. So he is quite awesome. But my question is, couldn’t it be also interpreted this way: Roth tried to write a dull and flat book that requires little to no effort but failed to do even that. So isn’t that an indication for his deterioration and decline? What’s wrong this this line of reasoning?
So , you’re saying that because he can’t write dull or flat, his ability as a writer is declining ?
For eg: Suppose there is a mathematician who gets every problem correct and now people wants him to get a problem wrong but he just can’t get it wrong ----> Will you say his ability to do math is declining ?
Is there any evidence in the sentence that the writer has aced writing other books? You’re establishing the mathematician as a genius problem solver, but there is no evidence that Roth is a genius writer.
What I get from this is that this man Roth is brilliant.
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