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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?

A) He seems Passive
B) He is extremely arrogant
C) He has a stooping gait
D) he is very somber

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The most accurate inference we could make is option D, which alludes to the Count's (the speaker's) somber nature. In the poem, he tells about his former lady, who was seemingly easily amused. This, apparently, bothered him; how she smiled at virtually anything teased him to bits. So he "gave commands". Maybe he told her not to be so perky, maybe he had her killed, who knows? But the ambiguity around his statement and the fact that "all smiles stopped together" make us wonder about how far the Count would go to make his Duchess please him.
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Answer:

He is Arrogant is the correct answer.

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