B. In the evening, Brad and I often go out to dinner.
The other answer choices don't even sound correct if you say them out loud.
I did a 3 second google search for "tim o'brien" and the first thing that came up was the novel he wrote about the vietnam war called "The Things They Carried" written in 1990.
"All that glitters isn't gold."
"Eat to live, don't live to eat."
Answer: His father got fired from his job. His father then sat at home drinking and Scott looked at his father as almost a failure.