Answer: The Answer Is A, The town, which is also stifling
Explanation: If you read the poem, she talks about how the town is crowded. If you look up the word stifling, it talks about suffocation, which is when you cannot breathe. This signifies the fact that the town is enclosed with people.
Squeaky is full of pride at the beginning. She doesn't see Raymond's ability to run fast in the beginning, at the end she realizes how he always managed to catch up with her when she went somewhere. Squeaky was a bit ignorant at the beginning.