D. In a severe thunderstorm in an effort to get home in time to watch my favorite program.
Explanation:
Sentence fragments usually don't have a verb or subject. For B, sub is I, verb is drove. For C, sub is electricity and I, verb is was working and arrived. A is an interesting one, but we don't have to bother figuring out the subject and verb cause option D is filled with nothing but prep phrases, automatically making that our answer.
the, be, to, of, and, a, in, that, have, I, it, for, not, on, with, he, as, you, do, at, this, but, his, by, from, they, we, say, her, she, or, an, will, my, one, all, would, there, their, what, so, up, out, if, about, who, get, which, go, me
I do believe that Darry loves, Ponyboy and that he is only treating him the way he is out of personal interest. Darry just wants to keep Ponyboy safe because he is his older brother and that's his job.