You forgot to put the rest of the problem,
George has been answering all of Lennie's questions that the boss was asking Lennie.
B because tybalt loves Juliet and wants to marry her.
C) The phrase creates an image of people walking through several inches of trash, which implies a filthy environment. The entire text is talking about how dirty it is and how it is hard to walk through with all the trash and filth in the way.
"Repeated pattern of figures."
