I would say the best analogy is A because it is a better representation of how the employees interact with the outside world under the leadership of the executives, much like how limbs follow the brains to interact with the world.
It was written in reaction to the German army's swift invasion of France in the Franco-Prussian war which was in 1870 until 1871.
I hope that's help:)
Throw onions at there face :]
One could contend that Fitzgerald composed the plot the way he did with the expectation of mirroring his perspective of an awesome disquietude defeating American culture; a plot that uncovered a pervasive vacuousness that debilitates to degrade cultivated men and ladies. This is maybe a demeanor encouraged by Victorian culture, brought into the new century. With that in mind, maybe the novel ought to have been entitled "The Troubled Twenties".