Answer:
The answer is indeed letter C. images of mealtimes.
Step-by-step explanation:
The speaker of the poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" overanalyzes every situation in life, even the most trivial ones. He is an introverted man who finds himself incapable of living life the same way other people do. He anxiously pictures scenarios in which he would be judged and talked of by women. His own imagination makes him postpone the moment when he'll try, meet people, talk to them, and let go of his fears. Mealtimes are often mentioned throughout the poem as if they are something heavy and dreadful, a time when people are forced to interact - in the speaker's point of view:
Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea.
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Should I, after tea and cakes and ices,
Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?
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And would it have been worth it, after all,
After the cups, the marmalade, the tea, ...