A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings

Which quote from paragraph 13 best supports the answer to Part A?

A. "But he must have known the reason for those changes, for he was quite careful that
no one should notice them"
B. "Elisenda let out a sigh of relief, for herself and for him, when she watched him pass
over the last houses, holding himself up in some way with the risky flapping of a senile
vulture."
C. "Then she went to the window and caught the angel in his first attempts at flight. They
were so clumsy that his fingernails opened a furrow in the vegetable patch and he was
on the point of knocking the shed down with the ungainly flapping that slipped on the
light and couldn't get a grip on the air."
D. "She kept watching him even when she was through cutting the onions and she kept
on watching until it was no longer possible for her to see him, because then he was no
longer an annoyance in her life but an imaginary dot on the horizon of the sea."

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D. "She kept watching him even when she was through cutting the onions and she kept on watching until it was no longer possible for her to see him, because then he was no longer an annoyance in her life but an imaginary dot on the horizon of the sea."

How does the text develop the character of the old mam, and how does this characterization contribute to the meaning of the story as a whole