Possibly because the ocean is frozen in the north and it is too cold with no goods to ship.
D - The narrator says he will die the following day.
In the first paragraph of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat", the narrator says, "But to-morrow I die, and to-day I would unburthen my soul," meaning that he will die the following day.
Then he goes into his childhood and marriage.
I believe it’s The answer to this question is B
