<span>The concern with getting daughters married into good families pervades Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and forms a large part of the social mannerisms that the novel mocks. The lines in this excerpt that one of the Bennet parents make an ironically false claim about having gone to great lengths to achieve that goal is to be present in almost every party the Bingley and Darcy proposes.</span>
A she said she would never go home
none of the other answers would have worked because I's need to be punctuated, names of people, names of poems etc.
Im pretty sure the answer is c, since the other answer choices mostly have general audiences.
Irony? because the narrator already feels destroyed. just my thought though....