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Read these lines: "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and the mind of the most resolute of men." What does calling her soul steel suggest about her?
AShe is cold towards everyone she meets
BShe has been hardened by a long illness
CShe is heavier than she looks at first
DShe will not be bent from her purpose
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. She will not be bent from her purpose
1. Steel is chosen for what it does rather than what it is, since steel does not bend or break easily.
2. The sentence beside it calls her mind the most resolute of any, which points the same way.
3. The speaker repeats that she will carry out her threat, so firmness of purpose is the quality on show.
4. So the comparison marks her as unshakeable, option D.
5. Coldness is a common reading of steel elsewhere, but nothing here shows her behaving coldly.
_Source: Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892), A Scandal in Bohemia_
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