Read these lines: "In it was an iron cot, a washstand and a chair. A shelf was the dresser. Its four bare walls seemed to close in upon you like the sides of a coffin. Your hand crept to your throat, you gasped, you looked up as from a well, and breathed once more. Through the glass of the little skylight you saw a square of blue infinity." The two comparisons in the quoted lines work together to

1. The first comparison makes the walls the sides of a coffin, which is as closed as a space can be. 2. The second makes the room a well, so that looking up is the only direction left. 3. Looking up is exactly what the last sentence describes, and what it finds is a square of blue infinity. 4. So the shut box and the one opening are held against each other, option D. 5. Option A reverses the effect, since both comparisons work by shrinking the room around the reader. _Source: O. Henry, The Four Million (1906), public domain_