Answer:
The theme that is best supported by the story the bachelor tells in "The Storyteller" is "pride comes before a fall."
Explanation:
In Saki's "The Storyteller", a group of children is traveling with their aunt in a train wagon. There happens to be a man with them, always referred to as the bachelor, he is annoyed by the children's behavior. Their aunt decides to tell them a story with the moral lesson that being good brings great rewards. In her story, a little girl is saved by the adults who admire her for her good behavior.
The children are not satisfied with the lesson and story at all, since it seems strange to them that the girl should only be saved if she were good. The bachelor then tells them his own story about a little well-behaved girl. Unlike the aunt, however, the theme underlying his story is quite the opposite. Good behavior may lead someone to be proud of themselves, and pride comes before a fall. His character, a good girl named Bertha, is proud of herself for being good and makes a point of wearing the medals she has won for being so:
"She was so good," continued the bachelor, "that she won several medals for goodness, which she always wore, pinned on to her dress. There was a medal for obedience, another medal for punctuality, and a third for good behaviour. They were large metal medals and they clicked against one another as she walked. No other child in the town where she lived had as many as three medals, so everybody knew that she must be an extra good child." [...]
Bertha walked up and down and enjoyed herself immensely, and thought to herself: 'If I were not so extraordinarily good I should not have been allowed to come into this beautiful park and enjoy all that there is to be seen in it,' and her three medals clinked against one another as she walked and helped to remind her how very good she really was. Just then an enormous wolf came prowling into the park to see if it could catch a fat little pig for its supper."
Her medals, the very symbol of her pride, get Bertha killed by the wolf. When she is hiding from it in the bushes, she trembles in fear and the medals clink. The noise attracts the wolf and Bertha dies. Thus, being good is what allowed Bertha to be invited to the park where the wolf decided to show up. Being proud is what killed her, since the medals she wore to boast about her goodness attracted the wolf.
The theme is best supported by the story the bachelor tells in "The Storyteller" is:
According to the given text, we can see that in the story of The Bachelpr, we can see that there is a group of children who go on a journey together along with a man who they refer to as bachelor.
As a result of this, the bachelor is easily irritable by the noise which the children make, and the aunt who is in charge of the children during the trip tells them a story that ends with the moral lesson that pride comes before a fall.
Therefore, the correct answer is option C
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