The chapter Old Alices History brilliantly dramatizes the situation of that early generation of workers brought from the villages and the countryside to the urban industrial centers. The account of Job Legh, the weaver and naturalist who is devoted to the study of biology, vividly embodies one kind of response to an urban industrial environment: an affinity for living things that hardens, by its very contrast with its environment, into a kind of crankiness. The early chaptersabout factory workers walking out in spring into Green Heys Fields; about Alice Wilson, remembering in her cellar the twig-gathering for brooms in the native village that she will never again see; about Job Legh, intent on his impaled insectscapture the characteristic responses of a generation to the new and crushing experience of industrialism. The other early chapters eloquently portray the development of the instinctive cooperation with each other that was already becoming an important tradition among workers.
17. Which of the following best describes the authors attitude toward Gaskells use of the method of documentary record in Mary Barton?
Uncritical enthusiasm
Unresolved ambivalence
Qualified approval
Resigned acceptance
Mild irritation
18. According to the passage, Mary Barton and the early novels of D. H. Lawrence share which of the following?
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