Read this excerpt from “Look Homeward, Angel.”
Like all the older children of Major Pentland she had, since her twentieth year, begun the slow accretion of land: from the savings of her small wage as teacher and book-agent, she had already purchased one or two pieces of earth.
From this excerpt, Eliza can best be described as a:
A: dutiful daughter.
B: humble teacher.
C: shrewd investor.
D: rich heiress.