Honore prioritizes his wheat before his mother and therefore she dies.
Option B.
Step-by-step explanation:
The story is named "The devil" which has been written by Guy De Maupassant. The story is about the boy who is named Honroe and the activities that he does.
The theme or the message of the story is that hardships can make a man take decisions which are very rude and ruthless. Because of his hardships only, Honroe had decided to choose wheat and other materialistic things over his mother because of which she died.