[1] We were looking for a belt buckle for my mother’s boss at the museum because he collected Mexican silver and had given my mother a hundred-dollar bill. He wanted her to find a buckle with his initial ‘T’ for Tommy. He was a congenial man, but I thought we should have been spending our time looking for things to buy ourselves. [2] I saw dresses and blouses like the colors of the finest jewels alongside beautiful paper flowers and silver jewelry. Every time we stopped at a jewelry booth, my mother looked for the belt buckle. [3] “What can I get as a souvenir?” I asked my mother after we visited the third or fourth booth. Why does the author compare the colors of the dresses and blouses to “the colors of the finest jewels” in paragraph 2?
a
to emphasize that they were very appealing
b
to compare them to the colors of the silver jewelry
c
to reveal a desire to purchase jewelry for herself
d
to show that the market had only limited variety of merchandise