4. When Miss Emma and Tante Lou ask Grant to work with Jefferson at the beginning of the story, what is best conveyed about these women through this simile: “They sat there like boulders, their bodies, their minds immovable” (14)?

a. Miss Emma and Tante Lou are fat.

b. Miss Emma and Tante Lou are stubborn and mean to Grant.

c. Miss Emma and Tante Lou will not allow them to leave the house unless he feeds them.

d. Miss Emma and Tante Lou will not budge their request and let Grant deny their wish.