The answer is C) They enjoy a close friendship & D) They rely on each other for the sake of survival.
At the beginning we don't see the friendship or the trust in each other, that's because Phillip is very rude and mean to Timothy, but as the time goes by they compliment each other and make a bond where they function as a vital part for the friendship and survival.
The correct answer is: Mrs. Pontellier will make fewer and fewer attempts to fit into the domestic roles assigned to her by society.
Indeed, the structure of the passage is one of incremental psychological distress, which indicates future breaking point. The lexical field reinforces such analysis, with words such as “unhappy, deprived, rebuked, harassed” and “no good.”
I withstood the bitter words, and preceded the conversation with a welcoming tone.