Excerpt from 100% - The Story of a Patriot
Upton Sinclair
11 Peter looked into the faces of everyone he passed, searching for a possible opening. Some returned his glance, but never for more than a second, for they saw an insignificant looking man, undersized, undernourished, and with one shoulder higher than the other, a weak chin and mouth, crooked teeth, and a brown moustache too feeble to hold itself up at the corners. Peters' straw hat had many straws missing, his second-hand brown suit was become third-hand, and his shoes were turning over at the sides. In a city where everybody was "hustling," everybody, as they phrased it, "on the make," why should anyone take a second glance at Peter Gudge? Why should anyone care about the restless soul hidden inside him, or dream that Peter was, in his own obscure way, a sort of genius? No one did care; no one did dream.
Mark is adapting this text into a play. As a playwright, he will need to use dramatic conventions. Which describes the dramatic convention MOST HELPFUL to present the character of Peter as described in section eleven?
A) Cast a character who could portray Peter in this scene as the stock character of a black-cloaked, moustache-twirling villain.
B) Include special lighting effects to create the necessary suspension of disbelief to portray Peter as both a hero and a loser.
C) Cast a character who could portray Peter in this scene as the stock character of a man down on his luck and at odds with the world.
D) Include light musical interludes and singing characters to create the mood of a scene about a man down on his luck and at odds with the world.
E) Cast a character who could portray Peter in this scene as the stock character of a man ready to be king of the world.
THE ANSWER IS C
