Read the excerpt from The Red Badge of Courage. In this excerpt, Henry Fleming has just expressed disapproval of how his commanding officers lead, which he believes caused his regiment to lose the battle they had recently fought.

"Well, then, if we fight like the devil an’ don’t ever whip, it must be the general’s fault,” said the youth grandly and decisively. "And I don’t see any sense in fighting and fighting and fighting, yet always losing through some derned old lunkhead of a general.”

A sarcastic man who was tramping at the youth’s side, then spoke lazily. "Mebbe yeh think yeh fit th’ hull battle yestirday, Fleming,” he remarked.

The speech pierced the youth. Inwardly he was reduced to an adject pulp by these chance words. His legs quaked privately. He cast a frightened glance at the sarcastic man.

"Why, no,” he hastened to say in a conciliating voice "I don’t think I fought the whole battle yesterday.”

Which phrase best explains how the characters’ conflicting perspectives are presented in this excerpt?

A. by allowing Henry to continue his argument
B. by suggesting that Henry’s thoughts are correct
C. by showing how Henry reflects on his argument
D. by explaining Henry’s misunderstanding of the sarcasm