Who to figure out subject verb agreement

Excerpt from Appetite

Will Wordy

In a house the size of a postage stamp

lived a man as big as a barge.

His mouth could drink the entire river

You could say it was rather large

For dinner he would eat a trillion beans

And a silo full of grain,

Washed it down with a tanker of milk

As if he were a drain.

 Which does NOT describe how much the man can eat or drink?

A)lived a man as big as a barge.  

B)Washed it down with a tanker of milk  

C)His mouth could drink the entire river  

Eliminate

D)For dinner he would eat a trillion beans  

as for symbolic actions, the narrator's tearing down the wallpaper in an attempt to find the "woman" in the wallpaper represents her struggle to retain or regain her sanity.   the wallpaper has been part of her confinement and by her tearing it down, she is freeing herself from that confinement.