Which of the following excerpts from the text best illustrates the author's use of personification to create an image in the reader's mind?

a. "… with lank gray hair flowing over a greasy coat-collar …"
b. "i found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets …"
c. "i had refused to give up the smallest scrap out of that package …"
d. “we called at some more places with farcical names, where the merry dance of death and trade goes on …"