It would have been much easier for brainly users to give you the right answer if you had attached some option to choose the correct one. I think I know the right answer, and do hope you have the same options in your task. So, I am pretty sure that the statement which best explains why Irving sets "The Adventure of the Mysterious Stranger" in a land of “masks and gondolas” is ''The setting is symbolic of the idea that ease and affluence are available to all''
