Which evidence from the passage best displays the author's point of view toward his culture?
AO"This could have occurred nowhere but in England, where men and sea permeate, so
to speak, the sea entering into the life of most men, and the men knowing something
or everything about the sea, in the way of amusement, of travel, or of bread-winning."
(paragraph 1)
B. O
"We were sitting round a mahogany table that reflected the bottle, the claret-glasses,
and our faces as we leaned on our elbows. There was a director of companies, an
accountant, a lawyer, Marlow, and myself." (paragraph 2)
C.
"He had a Roman nose, a snow-white, long beard, and his name was Mahon, but he
insisted that it should be pronounced Mann. He was well connected, yet there was
something wrong with his luck, and he had never got on." (paragraph 5)
D.
"We were a week working up as far as Yarmouth Roads, and then we got into a gale,
the famous October gale of twenty-two years ago." (paragraph 10)