What do the following excerpts from the novel tell readers about Ashima and Ashoke’s relationship? “Ashima never thinks of her husband’s name when she thinks of her husband, even though she knows perfectly well what it is. She has adopted his surname but refuses, for propriety’s sake, to utter his first."

“’I love you, sweetheart.’ Words Ashima has neither heard nor expects to hear from her own husband; this is not how they are.”

A. Ashima and Ashoke regret their arranged marriage.

B. Ashima and Ashoke do not take on modern ways to express love.

C. Ashima and Ashoke do not know each other very well.

D. Ashima and Ashoke do not think of each other fondly.