C. Anyone
Because anyone is a demonstrative pronoun
I’d say:
I had a hard time deciding whether to write an essay about the works of “Eudora Welty, Joan Didion, Gwendolyn Brooks” because the rest of the punctuations doesn’t make sense.
But actually it should be:
I had a hard time deciding whether to write an essay about the works of Eudora Welty, Joan Didion, and Gwendolyn Brooks.
(Without the quotation marks and inclusion the word “and” before “Gwendolyn”)
Not sure but can you give more details
The correct answer is A.
The ideas in this sentence are not coordinated at all. They are merely two sentences linked by the conjunction "and."
In order to coordinate it correctly, a more appropiate conjunction should be added. One possibility would be the word "also."