mikemcgarry,
GMATNinjaTwo,
MartyTargetTestPrepI have really been surprised at the answer of question 6, could you please elaborate on the answer choices, especially with A, what's the author approving of and what are they disliking.
Moreover, this is my analysis of the highlighted sentences. Could you also check this, additionally? Thanks for your time.
• Inevitably, because Hardy did not care in the way that novelists such as Flaubert or James cared, and therefore took paths of least resistance.
(Author dislikes the fact that Hardy simply didn’t care about an impulse enough or allow an impulse to develop, and instead switched to another impulse, taking the easy way out.)
• Thus, one impulse often surrendered to a fresher one and, unfortunately, instead of exacting a compromise, simply disappeared.
(Author believes that Hardy should have tried to strike a fine balance between two different impulses, but he didn’t)
• A desire to throw over reality a light that never was might give way abruptly to the desire on the part of what we might consider a novelist-scientist to record exactly and concretely the structure and texture of a flower.
( When Hardy wanted to reveal something to the reader, it would be very detailed, and systematic, almost as if Hardy was a scientist-cum-writer. Doesn’t the word, abrupty also denote a negative connotation?)
• In this instance, the new impulse was at least an energetic one, and thus its indulgence did not result in a relaxed style.
( Author: Well, at least, the impulse shifted from being detailed to being curious and energetic, instead of being too verbose and boring? “At least” is a positive connotation?
• But on other occasions Hardy abandoned a perilous, risky, and highly energizing impulse in favor of what was for him the fatally relaxing impulse to classify and schematize abstractly.
(Author: But, when he should have taken the adventurous impulse, he instead, resorted to the impulse to be too detail-oriented. Fatally= negative connotation