The paragraph about grocery shopping sets up the contrast between
mother and father. While the father wants the family to become
like a normal American family (wanting his wife to shop at the supermarket
and not allowing her to talk to the neighbors), the mother wants to shop
at La Bodega and be around familiar ingredients. It could not be
C because the narrator/daughter here does not come across as Americanized.
It could not be E because the passage only depicts the mother’s loyalty
to Puerto Rican culture. So you have A as the correct answer.