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Read the passage below and answer the question.

It was winter night like any other night. And I didn't have my chemistry done either. But the way the moon silvered the twigs and the snow-drifts, I just could not stay inside. The skating rink isn't far from our house—you can make it in five minutes if the side walks aren't slippery, so I went skating.

From “Sixteen,” Maureen Daly

The passage above is best viewed as a description of which element of a short story?

a theme
b conflict
c character
d setting