Which piece of textual evidence from the story "Civil Peace" defends best the analysis that the main protagonist, Jonathan, is optimistic?

A. "'I count it as nothing,' he told his sympathizers, his eyes on the rope he was tying. 'What is egg rasher? Did I depend on it last week? Or is it greater than other things that went with the war?'"
B. "Jonathan and his family were now completely paralysed by terror. Maria and the children sobbed inaudibly like lost souls."
C. "He was normally a heavy sleeper but that night he heard all the neighborhood noises die down one after another."
D. "At first he went daily, then every other day and finally once a week, to the offices of the Coal Corporation where he used to be a miner, to find out what was what."