Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.

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PEGGY PLAYS OFF-BROADWAY I Cast Call “First casting calls are so difficult,” Peggy Lane said, looking ruefully at the fifty or more actresses and actors who milled about nervously, chatting with I am!” “Have you read the play?” Paula asked. “I’m lucky there,” Greta replied. “I’ve seen it one another, or sat on the few folding chairs trying Peggy. “I think it’s wonderful! I hope more than ever that I get the part! Do you really think I have a chance?” Greta nodded decisively. “If you can act, you’re made for it,” she said. Peggy stole a glance through the doors to the theater. “I think we’re about ready to find out whether or not you can act,” she said. “They seem to be about must, indeed, be more wearing on the boys. Mallory Seton, director of the new play, had been an upper-class student at the Academy when Peggy had started there, and he was a good friend of hers. She had worked with him before, as a general assistant, when they had discovered a theater. It would not be easy for him to consider Peggy for an acting role, and to do so completely without bias. It would not be a bend over backward to keep from giving favors to his friends. If she was to get a role in this new production, she would really have to work for it. And if it was difficult for Mal, she thought, it was “Do you think they’ll ever get through all these people?” Amy asked, interrupting her thoughts. “How can they hope to hear so many actors read for them in just one afternoon?” “Oh, they won’t be doing readings today,” Peggy and starts to read your lines.” All at the same time, the girls started to reassure him and tell him how good the play was, and how badly the actors, including themselves, had handled the lines, but this was so much like their last exchange “But what if the people they pick for looks can’t act?” Amy asked. “And what if some of the rejects are wonderful actors?” “They won’t go back to the rejects,” Peggy explained, “because they both have a pretty good idea of what the characters in the play should look like. And if the people they pick aren’t good enough actors, then they hold another cast call and try again. Mal says that sometimes certain parts are so hard to to find one actor.” “It seems kind of unfair, doesn’t it, to be eliminated just because you’re not the right physical to start somewhere, and I guess that’s as good a place as any.” Then she smiled and added, “I guess I’m “Since there are fewer men here, and also fewer male roles to cast, we’re going to do them first. I hope that you ladies won’t mind. We won’t keep you waiting that I’d do better here. Have you had any luck?” “Oh, I’m just beginning,” Peggy said. “I’m still studying at the New York Dramatic Academy. I hope I can get some kind of supporting role in this play, but I don’t think I’m ready for anything big yet. By appealing combination of strength and feminine softness. “I think you do have a chance,” Peggy said. “In fact, if you can act, I bet you’ll get the part. I’ve read the play, and I know the author and director, and if you just walked out of the script!” “Oh, I hope you’re right!” Paula said with animation. “And I hope you get a part, too. I have a feeling that you’re going to bring me good luck!” to help me in the least, and I’m going to have to be awfully good to get the part. And it’s really important can show my mother and father that I can earn some money by acting, I’m sure that they’ll let me go on trying.” be grateful that he made me learn all those things. I don’t think he has much faith in the acting business, but he’s been wonderful about giving me a chance. What do your parents think of your wanting to be an actress?” Instead of answering, Paula suddenly stood up. “Let’s go see how they’re coming with the actors,” she said. “I think they’re almost finished.” “I don’t doubt that you could,” Mal said gently, “but if you did, the play would suffer. I’m afraid the given copies of the play to study, marked at the passages I want to hear. Be sure to read the whole play carefully, so that you understand the workings of the Peggy was sure that each was casting rather hostile looks toward others who were trying for the same parts. Keeping friendships in the theater was not an easy thing, she thought, particularly for people of similar physical types! Mal’s first concern in reviewing the actresses was, of course, for the leading role. And, of course, it was for this role that he had the most applicants. More to get the part! I know it!” 10 “Don’t count too much on it,” Peggy cautioned, smile, “but not for a girl so pretty that she’ll dominate the stage! It was a pleasure to look at you, but I’m afraid you’re not quite right for the part.” When he was done, Peggy and two others were given scripts and told to come to the theater on Saturday. Feeling lightheaded and giddy, Peggy settled herself on one of the folding chairs that lined Scarcely noticing the rest of the proceedings, she thought only about the coming readings. She was so familiar with the play that she knew she had an advantage, perhaps unfairly, over the other two girls. She had watched the script grow from its first rough draft to the finished text now in her hands, and had discussed it with Randy through each revision. She knew she could play the part in fact, she suspected secretly that Randy had written it for her, and the she knew. Mal’s sense of fairness and his absolute devotion to the play above everything else would keep him from making up his mind in advance. But despite this knowledge, she could not help looking ahead—all the way ahead—to the restless preparations backstage, the bright, hot lights and the smell of make-up and scenery paint as she waited to go on in Act One, Scene One of with great care. Amy, who was acting as Mal’s assistant for the production, sat in a chair by the proscenium, reading her script by the light of a small lamp and feeding the actor cue lines. Mal followed the whole sequence with no visible sign of impatience and, when the actor was through, said, “Thank you. We’ll let you know our decision in a day or two.” know our decision in a day or two,” and called for the next reading. Peggy watched the remaining actors try for the role, and made mental notes of which ones were possible, to have no idea at all about the play or its meaning, and Peggy was sure that these men had read only the parts marked for them. Others had a clear understanding stage. Others still were actors who had one rather inflexible way of playing, and used it for all kinds of from the roles he had to play, and that as he got other roles, he showed other facets of a rounded talent. It made her angry that some actors thought they could get ahead in a creative field by being imitative. “I think I’ll go back there with the girls,” Peggy whispered. “I’m looking for a girl I met at the casting call, and I’d like to chat with her for a few minutes the casting call of three days ago, but did not see her new friend among them. She decided to go out to the lobby to wait for her there. A new group of girls entered the theater as Peggy was leaving and, as she call in a play doctor to try to fix things up, but he finally decided, and very sensibly, that it would be

<question>:
What was the narrative purpose of having Amy not audition for a role?

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A It helped illustrate that she and Peggy are close with Randy and Mal, because she helped them during auditions.
B It helped illustrate that she doesn't want to compete with Peggy, because if she'd auditioned they'd go for the same role.
C It helped illustrate that she doesn't want to compete with Paula, because if she'd auditioned they'd go for the same role.
D It helped illustrate that she wants the play to succeed and that she thinks she needs to help with auditions in order for that to happen.

<answer>:

A