I will go with progress without struggle because U Don't want fail everything so sometimes they can be struggle but they or someone is trying do something do get good at now or later. other one is neither because progress mean good and struggle mean keep trying. Hope this help u
You could use confidence.
B would be incorrect because "So did two others from our youth group." is an incomplete sentence.
The metaphor for life in this poem is a game of Monopoly with no winner. The poem describes a situation in which, through the process of trying to beat out the other competitors in the game, no player ultimately wins (see the "Crabs in a Bucket" metaphor for a similar idea).