The Correct answer here is A.<span>He wants to provide his family but has limited options.</span>
The expression, a chip off the old block means that people who resemble their parents in some way. For example, you could say <span>“Mark just won the same sailboat race his father won twenty years ago; he's a </span>chip off the old block<span>.”</span>
It's D. The narrative will change depending on the narrator's tone and point of view.
Conventions are a way something is done.
