【单选题】

The author refers to the "largest fish" (lines 11 - 12) primarily in order to
A．(A) suggest a refuge from the long history of sexist literary criticism

B．(B) offer a sense of political purpose that can only be awakened through literature
C．(C) articulate the possibility for escape from the confines of gendered identity
D．(D) reference a unique feminist identity that must be extracted somehow from the body
E．(E) indicate a source of the patriarchal identification traditionally suffered by women writers