Read the excerpt from The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
The room itself is cobwebbed, and dingy with old paint; its floor is strewn with gray sand, in a fashion that has elsewhere fallen into long disuse…
Which of the following best summarizes the excerpt?
The room is fashionably dirty.
The room has a lot of cobwebs.
The room is old, dirty, and unused.
The room has a floor made of sand.
