C. <span>Dad thought we should have hamburgers for the cookout; but Mom wanted chicken.
Final answer: c.
Because:- A semicolon separates two sentences. </span>
No sure why
He is not. My. Teacher
The metaphor for life in this poem is a game of Monopoly with no winner. The poem describes a situation in which, through the process of trying to beat out the other competitors in the game, no player ultimately wins (see the "Crabs in a Bucket" metaphor for a similar idea).