In the second paragraph, the author of the passage is primarily concerned with A. examining the ways in which The Color Purple echoes its acknowledged predecessor, Their Eyes Were Watching God B. providing an example of a critic who has adequately addressed the structural features of The Color Purple C. suggesting that literary models other than the nineteenth-century realistic novel may inform our understanding of The Color Purple D. demonstrating the ineffectiveness of a particularly scholarly attempt to suggest an alternative way of evaluating The Color Purple E. disputing the perceived notion that The Color Purple departs from conventions of the realistic novel form