B. she may feel you are stingy
Everyone defined "ignore" differiently from past experiences and perspective.
Being ignored, in my opinion, is an action where the individual pretend it's not there.
The caged bird represents Angelou's<span> confinement resulting from racism and oppression.</span>
Entertaining
At your aunt's retirement party, you would want to give a fun, entertaining speech incorportating a story about your aunt.
At a retirement party, you don't need to persuade anyone to do anything, since you knew about the retirement party, you would have planned a speech (so it would not be extemporanous and done spontasiously) and there's no need to inform anyone of anything at a retirement party.
