“What could I do? I'd tried to help them countless times, but Dad would insist they didn't need anything, and Mom would ask for something silly, like a perfume atomizer or a membership in a health club. They said that they were living the way they wanted to.”
The tone of the paragraph beginning with “What could I do?” can be best described as
A. dismissive.
B. confused.
C. frustrated.
D. fearful.
E. indifferent.