The reference to Michelangelo emphasizes in these lines from the passage
<em>In the room the women come and go
</em><em>Talking of Michelangelo
</em>empty intellectualism is the correct answer. They pretend to know what they are talking about.
C.) They lead the reader into a description of the novel’s main character, Ahab.
Captain Ahab is the main character in Moby Dic written by Herman Melville. He is the captain of a whaling ship called Pequod. Capitain Ahab lost his leg on a voyage when it was bitten by a white whale called Moby Dic. Ahab has to wear a prosthetic leg. He wants revenge and he uses his ship abd his crew to hunt the whale.
It Is written in first person