The correct answer is D) Dreiser reflects upon his brother's warm and cheerful nature to demonstrate Paul's optimistic outlook of life.
The effect of reflection in this excerpt from Theodore Dreiser's "My Brother Paul" is that Dreiser reflects upon his brother's warm and cheerful nature to demonstrate Paul's optimistic outlook of life.
In this part of the excerpt, Dreiser refers to his brother as "a man weighing three hundred pounds...and yet of so lithesome a build that he gave not the least sense of either undue weight or lethargy." This is how the author describes the vitality of his brother despite the overweight.
But Dreiser continues and ads: "His temperament, always ebullient and radiant, presented him as a clever, eager, cheerful, emotional and always highly illusioned person..." And Dreiser finally ads: "he was so spirited and bubbly, and emotional, and sentimental, that your fiercest moods could scarcely withstand his smile..."
So it is correct to say that the effect of reflection in this excerpt from Theodore Dreiser's "My Brother Paul" is that Dreiser reflects upon his brother's warm and cheerful nature to demonstrate Paul's optimistic outlook of life.
