"For one small bass which could have been bought at any trustworthy market for sixty-five cents, or, possibly, some poor little kitten-fish-offspring of a catfish--whose mother's milk is not yet dry upon its lips."
The author's diction in the sentence makes the audience
A) feel sorry for the catfish.
B) feel worried for the small bass.
C) feel excitement for the fisherman.
D) feel apathy for the mother catfish.