Which excerpt from “the gift of the magi” presents the reader with the initial conflict of the story?

a) there was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
b) tomorrow would be christmas day, and she had only $1.87 with which to buy jim a present.
c) she had a habit for saying little silent prayer about the simplest everyday things, and now she whispered: " god, make him think i am still pretty."
d) twenty dollars a week doesn't go far.

Tomorrow would be Christmas Day, and she had only $1.87 with which to buy Jim a present.

no

explanation:

recent news about two years ago indicates that a polish forestry student by chance unearthed at a depth of about 40cm (16 inches), during digging in a damp polish forest he found a 13-page manuscript into a thermos flask.

greek jew marcel nadjari was a aischwitz slave who witnessed how the nazi's built big death chambers and crematoriums and told how he was forced to escort fellow jews to the gas chambers. he accounts on this manuscript how the nazi's disguised this chambers to look like showers. also, he describes this place as a process of extermination from the chambers to the trains arriving to take the bodies.