What is the central idea of this passage?
A. Women must work very hard in the summer.
B. Women wish to marry soldiers.
C. Women have to spend their days consulting oracles.
D. Women must find husbands before they grow old.
Lysistrata
by Aristophanes (excerpt)
When the soldier returns from the wars, even though he has white hair, he very soon finds a young wife. But a woman has only one summer; if she does not make hay while the sun shines, no one will afterwards have anything to say to her, and she spends her days consulting oracles that never send her a husband.
