Read this excerpt from an essay: Very early in the novel, Dreiser plays with the object–person dynamic. Clothes, for example, stand in for people. Describing traveling salesmen known as “drummers,” Dreiser writes, “Good clothes, of course, were the first essential, the things without which he was nothing.”

Which detail provides textual evidence?
A.
Dreiser plays with the object–person dynamic.
B.
Clothes, for example, stand in for people.
C.
Describing traveling salesmen known as “drummers,”
D.
“. . . the things without which he was nothing.”