Read this excerpt from “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning:


—and if she let

Herself be lessoned so, nor plainly set

Her wits to yours, forsooth, and made excuse,

—E'en then would be some stooping: and I choose

Never to stoop. Oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt,

Whene'er I passed her; but who passed without

Much the same smile? This grew; I gave commands;

Then all smiles stopped together.


What conclusion can you draw about the speaker's character?

AHe seems Passive

BHe is extremely arrogant

CHe has a stooping gait

Dhe is very somber