Read the excerpt from chapter 25 of the awakening. mrs. highcamp was a worldly but unaffected, intelligent, slim, tall blonde woman in the forties, with an indifferent manner and blue eyes that stared. she had a daughter who served her as a pretext for cultivating the society of young men of fashion. alcée arobin was one of them. he was a familiar figure at the race course, the opera, the fashionable clubs. which best describes the narrative voice of the excerpt?

a. the author uses a subjective observer to present subtle judgments about the characters.
b. the author uses an objective observer to present a factual telling of the events of the story.
c. the author uses the point of view of a character in the story to offer insight into arobin’s habits.
d. the author uses the point of view of a character in the story to reveal mrs. highcamp’s age.