Read the excerpt below and answer the question.
So now Della's beautiful hair fell about her rippling and shining like a cascade of brown waters. It reached below her knee and made itself almost a garment for her. And then she did it up again nervously and quickly. Once she faltered for a minute and stood still while a tear or two splashed on the worn red carpet. On went her old brown jacket; on went her old brown hat. With a whirl of skirts and with the brilliant sparkle still in her eyes, she fluttered out the door and down the stairs to the street.
Which statement from the excerpt above foreshadows what will happen next in the story?
It reached below her knee and made itself almost a garment for her.
So now Della's beautiful hair fell about her rippling and shining like a cascade of brown waters.
Once she faltered for a minute and stood still while a tear or two splashed on the worn red carpet.
With a whirl of skirts and with the brilliant sparkle still in her eyes, she fluttered out the door and down the stairs to the street.

I think the answer is answer 4. With a whirl of her skirt and with the brilliant sparkle still in her eyes, she fluttered out the door and down the stairs to the street. Hope this helps.

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appearssprings appearssprings · Answer 2 · 2019-10-13T23:18:57+02:00

The correct answer is the option that reads “With a whirl of skirts and with the brilliant sparkle still in her eyes, she fluttered out the door and down the stairs to the street”. Taken from the short story “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry (1906), the excerpt presented above foreshadows the moment when Della cut his hair off and sell it to receive money in exchange. Della wanted to buy Jim a Christmas gift, but she only had $ 1.87. Previously to that, the narrator describes that Della had only one possession she was proud of: her hair. The excerpt presented above narrates the previous moments of Della’s suffering of cutting her hair off and the last sentence of the excerpt foreshadows such moment, stating that Della heads for the street in search for some place to sell her hair.