The narrator was in a garden during the war in the first paragraph of the "The End of Something" by Ernest Hemingway. Option C is correct.
“The End of Something” opens with a description of Horton Bay, Michigan, a town that exists because of the lumber industry.
The setting is the north Michigan woods, familiar territory in Hemingway's early fiction.
The story concerns the end of the end of the heydays of logging, the end of the mill town on Hortons Bay, and the end of a romance between Nick and Marjorie.