The appropriate response is letter D. The story opens with an all encompassing perspective of the Salinas Valley in winter, covered in mist. The concentrate limits lastly settles on Elisa Allen, chopping down the spent stalks of chrysanthemums, in the garden on her better half's farm. Elisa is thirty-five, lean and solid, and she approaches her cultivating with incredible energy. Her significant other, Henry, originates from over the yard, where he had been organizing the offer of the thirty cows.