Food consumption is used as a symbol for social status in the play. The more food is consumed by a person, the higher is his social status and the more prominent people he knows. Oscar Wilde uses the play to show that excessive society.
The answer is A. With whom did you go fishing today.
It would be A because it is in chronological order a.k.a order that works with the timeline.
The correct answer is B. a lake, to suggest deeper meaning. The mirror as such is a metaphor of feminine frailty and insecurity; however, when it turns into a lake, it transcends that meaning and evolves into a metaphor of aging, time and change. It doesn't turn into a woman; it just shows the woman's transformation from a young girl into an old woman.