English, 23.10.2019 03:00 datboyjulio21

Read the excerpt from "a century ride."

ten o’clock, and she wheeled breathlessly past the outlying houses, and stepped wearily off on the threshold of the little inn, where the doctor lived. it was such a parody on a hotel—just two square rooms and a lean-to below, and three tiny bedrooms above, with their sashless windows, covered with mosquito netting, looking blank and deserted.

based on context, what is the best explanation of the meaning of "parody"?

a. it means that the hotel was such a small building that it had become a local joke.

b. it means that the hotel was so funny looking that it makes maude laugh despite being fatigued.

c. it means that the hotel was such a feeble imitation of a real hotel it appears to be absurdly funny.

d. it means that the hotel was so fake looking that local writers wrote funny stories about it.

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