Read the passage from Chapter 12 which begins at the beginning of the chapter and ends “That kind of thing’s pretty dry to most men.”

In the sentence “With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable,” the second clause

A. is antithetical to the first clause

B. reinforces the meaning of the first clause

C. dilutes the strength of the first clause

D. underlines the unimportance of the prepositional phrases in both clauses

E. is irrelevant to the first clause