Answer:
d. Casey
Explanation:
"Casey at the Bat" is a baseball poem from in 1888 by Ernest Thayer. First distributed in The San Francisco Examiner on June 3, 1888, it was later advanced by DeWolf Hopper in numerous vaudeville performances. It has turned out to be a standout amongst the best-known poems in American writing.
Flat character is a term used to describe characters that doesn't change throughout the story, and that are not complicated; flat character is the opposite of round character (a complex character that changes over time).
King Hrothgar in the epic story Beowulf, is considered a flat character because when the story is being told, he is an old King. Hrothgar has already lived and reached maturity so he doesn't change or develop and he is not complicated, the only thing complicated about King Hrothgar is that he doesn't have a successor ready to take the throne (and that complication is not directly related to the character's attributes).
It was morning. He knew it was morning because Gerasim had gone, and Peter the footman had come and put out the candles, drawn back one of the curtains, and begun quietly to tidy up. Whether it was morning or evening, Friday or Sunday, made no difference, it was all just the same: the gnawing, unmitigated, agonizing pain, never ceasing for an instant, the consciousness of life inexorably waning but not yet extinguished, the approach of that ever dreaded and hateful Death which was the only reality, and always the same falsity. What were days, weeks, hours, in such a case?
I believe the answer is:
1. Ivan Ilyich wanted to weep, wanted to be petted and cried over, and then his colleague Shebek would come, and instead of weeping and being petted, Ivan Ilyich would assume a serious, severe, and profound air.
2. "This falsity around him and within him did more than anything else to poison his last days
From the first sentence, the narrator infer that even when a member of rising middle class is experiencing grief, they are forced to hide it due to the concern of their social standing.
From the second sentence, the narrator infers that unability to express emotion started to eating them from the inside and make them miserable.