The "purpose" is why you are reading it. So, the answer is B. The reason for which you read.
The correct answer is A) - the speaker recreating her identity.
The whole theme of this story is disrupted identity.
Highlight “They”
Rewritten; “My family says Seattle is a beautiful place to visit.” Or “My friends say Seattle is a beautiful place to visit.”
You can exactly expect what it says “Death”. You can expect the book to be about being in the pov of death, but death could mean lots of things in the book it could be about death after life or death what happens when you die or how does death feel like. From a book narrated by Death you can expect to know how death is.