C. because it's the only one that makes sense and the only one that talks about dee.
What comes to my mind is a person who wants avenge something, whether a person or and item that they love. It usually has malice behind it.
Just gonna rephrase that so I know how to answer it.
Strong, perspiring men shoveled them into packing cases and staggered with them to the van. This sentence the word staggered conveys. [?]
Staggered conveys that they were struggling, so they were almost stammering if stammering were to be a physical action instead of verbal.