Which best describes the tone of both passages? A) The first passage is hilariously funny, while the second passage is cold and analytical.
B) The first passage is clinical and scientific, while the second passage is primarily comical.
C) The first passage is ambiguous in its meaning, while the second passage is trying to be ironic.
Eliminate
D) The first passage has a satirical slant, while the second passage keeps an earnest and serious tone.

now, of course, the quality and the seasonability of these winter dreams varied, but the stuff of them remained.   they persuaded dexter several years later to pass up a business course at the state university—his father, prospering now, would have paid his way—for the precarious advantage of attending an older and more famous university in the east, where he was bothered by his scanty funds. but do not get the impression, because his winter dreams happened to be concerned at first with musings on the rich, that there was anything merely snobbish in the boy. he wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people—he wanted the glittering things themselves. often he reached out for the best without knowing why he wanted it—and sometimes he ran up against the mysterious denials and prohibitions in which life indulges.

there you go thats what we are missing

being surrounded by crimes, poverty, and failing schools as well as his own lack of confidence in his abilities.