Read the following passage:
The workshop of Master Coris was situated at the end of a cobblestone pier, where the tide constantly beat against the salt-crusted foundations. Inside, the air was heavy with the smell of lubricating oil and damp wood. A single, soot-stained window looked out onto the gray expanse of the harbor, admitting only a dim, watery light that barely reached the corners of the room. On every shelf and table, hundreds of clocks of various shapes and sizes ticked in a chaotic, unsynchronized chorus. Some tick-tocked with a deep, hollow resonance, while others clicked rapidly like beetles trapped in a box. In the center of this mechanical din sat Coris, his magnifying loupe pressed to his eye, completely insulated from the storm outside. The rhythmic clanking of the pendulum of a grand grandfather clock in the corner seemed to measure not the passing of minutes, but the slow, inevitable erosion of his own patience as he fumbled with a microscopic gear.
The description of the grandfather clock’s pendulum at the end of the passage primarily serves to highlight which of the following?
- The character's internal sense of mounting impatience.Answer
- BThe physical layout and spaciousness of the workshop.
- CThe chronological sequence of the day's events.
- DThe author's personal philosophy regarding the passage of time.
- EThe narrator's objective and unbiased recording of the workshop's inventory.