Answer :
C. The last line from 'Stolen Day' says about the narrator that he was feeling embarrassed by his family. The narrator's worst fear of being laughed at and being embarrassed by his family members had come true and he was at the center of their mockery again. He had just caught a giant carp fish from the dam and came home running with it and then he said that he had inflammatory rheumatism. But he did not realize that a person suffering from inflammatory rheumatism is not capable of this physical feat that he had just accomplished.
He spends Christmas all alone