A text passage is shown. Line 1 reads: “It must be nice,” she said. “It must be very nice. I wish women could do such things.” Line 2 reads: “It ain’t the right kind of life for a woman.” Line 3 reads: Her upper lip raised a little, showing her teeth. “How do you know? How can you tell?” she said. Line 4 reads: “I don’t know, ma’am,” he protested. “Of course I don’t know. Now here’s your kettles, done. You. Line 5 reads: don’t have to buy no new ones.” Line 6 reads: “How much?” Line 7 reads: “Oh, fifty cents’ll do. I keep my prices down and my work good. That’s why I have all them satisfied. Line 8 reads: customers up and down the highway.” Line 9 reads: Elisa brought him a fifty-cent piece from the house and dropped it in his hand. “You might be. Line 10 reads: surprised to have a rival some time. I can sharpen scissors, too. And I can beat the dents out of little pots. Line 11 reads: I could show you what a woman might do.” Line 12 reads: He put his hammer back in the oily box and shoved the little anvil out of sight. “It would be a lonely. Line 13 reads: life for a woman, ma’am, and a scary life, too, with animals creeping under the wagon all night.” Line 14 reads: He climbed over the single-tree, steadying himself in the seat, picked up the lines. “Thank you kindly. Line 15 reads: ma’am,” he said. “I’ll do like you told me; I’ll go back and catch the Salinas road . . .” The wagon turned. Line 16 reads: and crawled out the entrance road and back the way it had come, along the river. Line 17 reads: Elisa stood in front of her wire fence watching the slow progress of the caravan. Her shoulders were. Line 18 reads: straight, her head thrown back, her eyes half-closed, so that the scene came vaguely into them. Her. Line 19 reads: lips moved silently, forming the words, “Good-bye—good-bye.” Then she whispered: “That’s a bright. Line 20 reads: direction. There’s glowing there.”

Read the passage from “The Chrysanthemums” by John Steinbeck.
The reader can infer from this passage that men in Elisa's time and place
A. were much lonelier than women.
B. were less confident than women.
C. worked much harder than women.
D. enjoyed more freedom than women.