How would the meaning of the article change if the last paragraph were shortened to be following three sentence ?

Auden's musée des beaux arts" and williams's "landscape with the fall oficarus" share which common element?

Read this excerpt from the scarlet letter by nathaniel hawthorne and complete the sentence that follows. she had wandered, without rule or guidance, in a moral wilderness; as vast, as intricate and shadowy, as the untamed forest, amid the gloom of which they were now holding a colloquy that was to decide their fate. the author uses the point of view in the excerpt.

Which quotation best supports the authors’ claim and purpose?