Read the following sentence from “first confession” for dinner she had a jug of porter and a pot of potatoes with—-sometimes—-a bit of salt fish and she poured ot the potatoes on the table and ate them slowly with great relish using her fingers by way of a fork.
the narrator describes the grandmother as eating with great relish most likely to imply that
a she enjoys pickles with her potatoes
b her eating habits are sloppy and unclean
c she takes pleasure in every bite of her meal
d the dinner menu remains the same every day

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

i believe the answer is d : )