Discussion

Explanation:

The author mentions it clearly in the first paragraph, “Her physical death called, if anything, for relief rather than sorrow. What sort of middle age would she have faced without the voice to earn money for her drinks and fixes, without the looks and in her day she was hauntingly beautiful to attract the men she needed, without business sense, without anything but the disinterested worship of ageing men had heard and seen her in her glory?”
This eliminates 1, 2 and 4 and leaves us with option 3. She would have lived a rather devastated or ravaged existence had she survived beyond middle age.
Hence, the correct answer is option 3.

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