Question
Mrs. Bullfrog
Nathaniel Hawthorne
2 It makes me melancholy to see how like fools some very sensible
people act in the matter of choosing wives. They perplex their
judgments by a most undue attention to little niceties of personal
appearance, habits, disposition, and other trifles which concern
nobody but the lady herself. An unhappy gentleman, resolving to
wed nothing short of perfection, keeps his heart and hand till both
get so old and withered that no tolerable woman will accept them.
Now this is the very height of absurdity... The true rule is to
ascertain that the match is fundamentally a good one, and then to
take it for granted that all minor objections, should there be such,
will vanish, if you let them alone..
Besides the fundamental principle already hinted at, demanded
the tresh bloom of youth, pearly teeth, glossy ringlets, and the
whole list of lovely items, with the utmost delicacy of habits and
sentiments, a silken texture of mind, and, above all, a virgin heart.
in a word, if a young angel just from paradise, yet dressed in
earthly fashion, had come and offered me her hand, it is by no
means certain that I should have taken it. There was every chance
of my becoming a most miserable old bachelor, when, by the best
Which sentence BEST expresses the main idea of the story?
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Mrs. Bullfrog and Mr. Bullfrog are really just old
friends who took a long time to get to know each
other, and even longer to get married.
Mr. Bulffrog thinks he may be a bachelor all of his
life, but he has a plan for how he can trick a
woman into marrying him.
People who are rich often get preferential
treatment because of their money.
People are foolish in trying to choose a wife who
is perfect, instead of finding a good match and
accepting the imperfections.
Answer
People are foolish in trying to choose a wife who is perfect, instead of finding a good match and accepting the imperfections.