Read these lines: "At first he meant to repaper the room, but afterwards he said that I was letting it get the better of me, and that nothing was worse for a nervous patient than to give way to such fancies. He said that after the wallpaper was changed it would be the heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows, and then that gate at the head of the stairs, and so on." What is John doing in the last sentence?

1. 1. John had first meant to repaper the room, then changed his mind. 2. 2. His new argument is that giving way to such fancies is bad for her. 3. 3. The last sentence supports that argument by naming a chain: paper, then bedstead, then windows, then the gate, and so on. 4. 4. The phrase and so on shows the chain is meant to have no end, which is the point of the argument. 5. 5. Nothing in the sentence is offered as work already done, so option B fails. 6. 6. The chain is a reason to refuse, not a promise to act, so option C reverses his meaning. _Source: The Yellow Wall Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1892)_