Read the following passage carefully before choosing your answer:
To the casual observer, the daily operations of Dunlap & Sons proceed by a series of happy accidents, guided only by the blustering whims of the senior partners. They do not see, of course, the quiet mechanism of my ledger, which serves as the true ballast of this entire enterprise. It was I who noted the discrepancy in the Baltic timber shipment of last winter—a minor arithmetic error by young Mr. Dunlap that would have surely sunk our credit had I not silently corrected it. They call me a mere copyist, a man of ink and dry parchment, yet without my watchful eye, the sails of their ships would surely collapse. When young Dunlap was promoted to junior partner last Tuesday, he did not even look toward my alcove. It is of no consequence; his loud laughter and expensive waistcoats are merely the superficial display of a system that relies entirely on my silent, unrewarded vigilance. My colleagues whisper that I have grown obsessive, pointing to the neat piles of correspondence I keep long after their relevance has expired, but they fail to realize that in a world of drift and decay, order must be maintained at any cost, even if one must bear the burden alone.
In the passage, the contrast between the narrator's description of his "watchful eye" and his colleagues' whispers that he has "grown obsessive" primarily serves to do which of the following?
- Asummarize the series of events leading to the promotion of young Mr. Dunlap
- Bvalidate the narrator’s claim that he is the sole objective chronicler of the shipping firm's history
- expose the narrator's self-deception by juxtaposing his belief in his own indispensability with his colleagues' perception of his eccentricityCevap
- Ddemonstrate the author’s criticism of the monotonous and soul-crushing nature of clerical work in the Victorian era
- Eillustrate how the physical confinement of the clerk's alcove leads to his meticulous organization of files