Read the passage carefully:
The April sun beat warm upon the flagstones of the terrace, coaxing the first crocuses from their winter sleep, but Eleanor remained wrapped in the heavy, moth-eaten wool coat she had worn since the migration. Its thick collar pressed against her neck, a scratchy wool fortress against the afternoon breeze. When her sister reached out to take it, offering a light linen shawl in its place, Eleanor pulled the dark fabric tighter around her shoulders, her fingers gripping the brass buttons as if they were anchors. To shed the coat was to acknowledge the thaw, and with it, the finality of the crossing. In its dense, suffocating weight lay the only familiar weight left of the home they had fled, a portable fragment of northern winter that she carried like a penance into the persistent, unwelcome warmth of the valley. Here, under the gaze of the towering palms, the coat was an absurdity, a dark stain of wool against the vibrant, greening earth. Yet she clung to its scratchy embrace, preferring the stifling heat of her memories to the terrifying clarity of a new spring.
Based on the passage, the image of the wool coat serves primarily to convey which of the following about Eleanor?
- her inability to reconcile herself to the permanent loss of her past lifeCevap
- Bher literal discomfort with the physical environment and climate of the valley
- Cher growing conflict with her sister over the possession of family heirlooms
- Dher adherence to a religious ritual of penance to cleanse herself of sin
- Eher paranoid belief that she requires physical armor to defend against hostile neighbors