Which choice best states the overall structure of the text?

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The following text is from George Eliot's 1857 short story "The Sad Fortunes of the Rev. Amos Barton." In the text, the narrator addresses the reader directly and alludes to a discussion among Rev. Amos Barton's neighbors.

It was happy for the Rev. Amos Barton that he did not, like us, overhear the conversation recorded in the last chapter. Indeed, what mortal is there of us, who would find his satisfaction enhanced by an opportunity of comparing the picture he presents to himself of his own doings, with the picture they make on the mental retina of his neighbours? We are poor plants buoyed up by the air-vessels of our own conceit: alas for us, if we get a few pinches that empty us of that windy self-subsistence! The very capacity for good would go out of us.

The narrator expresses relief that a disagreement was resolved more expediently than expected and then indicates how the situation might have gone differently.

The narrator comments on the fact that a character remains unaware of how he is viewed by others and then generalizes about the problem of learning others' opinions of one's own actions.

The narrator summarizes an earlier event involving a specific character and then anticipates the later significance it will have for that character.

The narrator implies that a character is not well liked by his neighbors and then uses an extended comparison to demonstrate why their negative opinion of him is largely justified.