The answer is B: Lucrezia's plight as a married woman.
Lucrezia is one of the most intriguing and sad characters, in what is already a sad tale, written by Virginia Woolf. After getting married, she is, by convention, forced to leave her home country, Italy, and move to England where she sees her husband wither away into madness. But although, alone and hopeless, her married life, just like the excerpt shows, does not go unnoticed, and like fireworks in the night, they shed light, momentarily but strongly, upon what otherwise would be nothing but darkness and solitude: the life of a married woman, victim of madness, though not her own.
