Either B or C. I think B.
This passage uses personification. Words cannot actually be stiff or heavy, and they do not need to be pushed out of one's mouth, but these adjectives and actions give the reader a vivid picture of Molly trying to say this words, and struggling greatly to do so.
Answer: it’s describing different kinds of people, based on culture
Explanation:
Chapter 1: “I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
Chapter 2: "It's really his wife that's keeping them apart. She's a Catholic and they don't believe in divorce." Daisy was not a Catholic and I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie.'
Chapter 3: “I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”
Chapter 4: “There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
Chapter 5: "He was consumed with wonder at her presence. He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock." (92)
