Which sentence best analyzes the poet's use of allusion in this passage?
let us go then, you and i, when the evening is spread out against the sky like a patient etherized upon a table; let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, the muttering retreats of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels and sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: streets that follow like a tedious argument of insidious intent to lead you to an overwhelming question. . oh, do not ask, "what is it? " let us go and make our visit. in the room the women come and go talking of michelangelo.

a. the speaker mentions hamlet to show how he comes to terms with indecision and makes a stand.
b. the speaker refers to michelangelo to show how people pretend to be who they're not so they can fit in.
c. the speaker refers to "one-night cheap hotels" to suggest that people can live frugally in difficult times.
d. the speaker compares the evening to an etherized patient to suggest the ideas of fatigue and decay.