Select the correct answer. Read the following excerpt from the beginning of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

I asked him how far we were from Hartford. He said he had never heard of the place; which I took to be a lie, but allowed it to go at that. At the end of an hour we saw a far-away town sleeping in a valley by a winding river; and beyond it on a hill, a vast gray fortress, with towers and turrets, the first I had ever seen out of a picture.

"Bridgeport?" said I, pointing.

"Camelot," said he.

Which statement best describes the effect of the story's setting?

A.
It shows that the narrator is unable to communicate effectively with the other man.
B.
It develops the plot because the reader is first made aware of the narrator’s true whereabouts.
C.
It creates a mood of disappointment, since the narrator is not where he expects to be.
D.
It gives the reader a reason to assume that one of the characters is lying to the other.