Question

read the excerpt from \the storyteller\.
\she did all that she was told, she was always truthful,
she kept her clothes clean, ate milk puddings as though
they were jam tarts, learned her lessons perfectly, and
was polite in her manners.\
\was she pretty?\ asked the bigger of the small girls.

ot as pretty as any of you,\ said the bachelor, \but
she was horribly good.\
there was a wave of reaction in favour of the story, the
word horrible in connection with goodness was a
novelty that commended itself. it seemed to introduce a
ring of truth that was absent from the aunts tales of
infant life.
how does the underlined sentence contribute to the
theme that culture can limit our thinking?
it indicates that the aunts portrayal of right and
wrong is inauthentic and unconvincing.
it shows that children and adults have opposing
perspectives on what goodness is.
it characterizes the children as eager to accept any
viewpoint that disagrees with their aunts.
it satirizes the bachelors conception of goodness by
comparing it to the one in the aunts story.

Explanation:

The aunt's stories likely follow a traditional, perhaps overly idealized cultural view of what is good (e.g., a very proper, rule - abiding child). The bachelor's story, which the children find more truthful, shows that the aunt's portrayal (a cultural - bound view of right and wrong in storytelling) is not genuine. The "ring of truth" in the bachelor's story contrasts with the aunt's tales, indicating her inauthenticity.

Answer:

It indicates that the aunt’s portrayal of right and wrong is inauthentic and unconvincing.