How does giving a list of what the store used to sell readers to see that the town and its people have meaning?

"or horehound candy," miss ginny said. "or corsets and salves. we had cough syrups and all that for the body. in season, we'd buy and sell blackberries and walnuts and chestnuts, before the blight got them. and outside, thurmond milled corn and sharpened plows. even shoed a horse sometimes.“

question 10 options:

a. it demonstrates that both the store and the town are old-fashioned.

b. it gives an inventory of the store and what was important to the people.

c. it reveals the history of the store and its importance in the nameless town.