Question

Read the following English translation of a literary passage set in Galicia, Spain:

In the wind-swept coastal village of San Cibrao, Isabel spent her afternoons searching the rocky shore for fragments of sea glass. While the local fishermen saw only discarded bottles broken by the waves, Isabel recognized the sea's patient artistry in the frosted, rounded edges of each blue and amber shard. Back in her family’s workshop, she embedded these fragments into the mortar of the granite walls her father constructed. Her father, a traditional stonemason who prided himself on building structures designed to withstand centuries of Atlantic gales, initially dismissed her work as trivial. To him, granite was the only material worthy of respect—solid, unchanging, and permanent. Yet, as the autumn sun dipped below the horizon, light filtered through Isabel’s glass mosaic, casting shifting patterns of emerald and sapphire across the dark, heavy stone of the floor. Standing in the illuminated room, the stonemason realized that while his granite anchored them to the land, Isabel’s fragile glass captured the fleeting, luminous spirit of the ocean that sustained their lives. It was not a rejection of his stone, but its necessary counterpart.

Which of the following best describes the central theme of the passage?