Examine the scene. We see that this woman is the only one talking at the moment, and we can tell that she's not alone because of the parenthetical phrase that says "she looks around the circle of faces", indicating that she's surrounded by at least a small crowd of people. Based just on this, we can already eliminate A and D because those choices involve only one or two people.
Now, the woman is talking about Mr. Goodman and a certain characteristic of his that is quite peculiar. Clearly, if she is talking about Mr. Goodman, she can't be talking about herself or her life story. Thus, we can eliminate C.
