Read the following excerpt from T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock":
Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
of insidious intent
What is one purpose of the symbolism used in this passage?
O A. To draw a connection between the speaker and the reader
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O B. To link two unlike concepts: an etherized patient and a table
C. To make an oyster seem like a peer to the speaker
D. To portray an urban setting as a place of loneliness and isolation