Read this excerpt from Allen Ginsberg’s "A Supermarket in California."Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!What idea is expressed in this excerpt?

The speaker imagines wives among the avocados and babies among the tomatoes, creating a lively, exaggerated picture of the supermarket. The image suggests both plentiful food and the many people shopping there. It does not describe actual neglect or show that the narrator is frustrated by the crowd, so the best choice is “The narrator is amazed by the market’s quantity of food and people.”

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