Read the following list of scenes from a story, and think about the story’s narrative structure. Scene 1: An old woman waits at a bus stop. She wears a special dress and make-up.
Scene 2: The woman’s daughter shows up. She had to track down her mother, who did not tell her where she was going.
Scene 3: The daughter scolds the mother for coming to the bus stop.
Scene 4: The mother tunes out the daughter. She remembers scenes from a romance she had more than fifty years ago.
Scene 5: The mother tells her daughter that some people never leave your heart.
Scene 6: The bus pulls up, and the two stand up to greet an elderly man as he disembarks.

Which of the following BEST describes the narrative structure of this story?

a The story begins with an unexplained conflict, next uses a flashback to explain the conflict, and then resolves the conflict.

b The story starts out with a conflict and then presents events in chronological order to build to a climax.

c The story starts out with a scene from the future to help explain the conflict and then introduces the characters.

d The story begins with background information on the characters, next introduces their conflict, and then resolves the conflict.