The correct answer is:
Alfonso thinking his father would likely call him a sissy
<em>"And his father, who was puro Mexicano, would sit in his chair after work, sullen as a toad, and call him "sissy.”</em>
Alfonso had a conflict between him and this father, even though Alfonso seemed confident about the idea of having a new haircut, internally he knew neither his mother nor his father would accept it. Especially his father which in the text they make reference of his father's origin, was predisposed because of what he recalled about him.
I think that the use of rain is meant to symolize purification of all evil things.
Answer: He is being sarcastic, he is basically undermining the fact that death is a fate that means the end. So essentially he is being ironic with his sarcasm
I’ve never read this story but my gut is going with A
