Part One: Choose the answer that correctly interprets the sentence from the text.I thought about those small bits of self-confidence that were so painstakingly built in boyhood, and how they were being crushed at the counter. (Para.6)

A. I thought about how the young man had gradually managed to build his self-confidence as a boy and how it was now being destroyed at the counter.
B. I thought about how a boy could be so shy and felt so much as he grew up and why he was feeling even more afraid to talk at the counter.