Author’s attitude question.
@ Referring to the line 46 - 51, Stilgoe claims that the attitudes towards railroads by those writers (Henry James, Sinclair Lewis, and F.Scott Fitzgerald) were like the ambivalence of Thoreau’s.
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A) Writings of F,E, and H are introduced as the opposite example of showing positive attitude towards railroad.
B) Thoreau was mentioned when ambivalence attitude by minority writers was introduced. Matches what we have discussed above. (Correct)
C) Looking at line 53 - 57, author claims that “contrast” between enthusiastic supporters and minority intellectual dissenters persisted beyond 1880s. Claiming those writings to represent the public attitude would be too general. It is closer to minority writers’ attitude.
D) These writers would rather agree with them, because they, too, had ambivalent attitudes towards railroad.
E) The author doesn’t agree with the claim this ambivalent attitude is the prevailing attitude. Referring to the first sentence of the second paragraph, this attitude was from minority writers not "prevailing attitudes" in 1830s.