How does the speaker use diction and figutive language to portray what its like to be a "somebody"

I would say that the meaning of the excerpt is C: The narrator’s mother is attempting to identify what her son ate.

Explanation:

I chose this option because after reading the excerpt, it seems to me the narrator tries to understand what "he" had/took by studing his behaviour. She was trying to identify what it was he "held out" and the second character refers to the third one as "he", so he can't be talking about his mother.