"Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long- handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him, and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden. Sighing, he dipped his brush and passed it along the topmost plank: repeated the operation; did it again; compared the insignificant whitewashed streak with the far- reaching continent of unwhitewashed fence, and sat down on a tree-box discouraged. Jim came skipping out at the gate with a tin pail, and singing Buffalo Gals. Bringing water from the town pump had always been hateful work in Tom's eyes, before, but now it did not strike him so. He remembered that there was company at the pump. White, mulatto, and negro boys and girls were always there waiting their turns, resting, trading playthings, quarrelling. fighting, skylarking. And he remembered that although the pump was only a hundred and fifty yards off. Jim never got back with a bucket of water under an hour and even then somebody generally had to go after him."

Jim's appearance momentarily shifts Tom's focus. What is ironic about how Tom fetching water?

Created: 1 year ago | Updated: 10 months ago

Updated: 10 months ago

• ক
  Tom had always disliked fetching water, but now it seems preferable to whitewashing.
• খ
  Tom envies Jim's task, thinking it will be completed very late.
• গ
  Tom considers the pump a boring place, but Jim is excited to go.
• ঘ
  Tom believes Jill will be scolded for taking so long.

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