According to the speaker, Mr Bleaney was:
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Correct answer: C. a sad and dull person
Explanation
His habits and the bare room suggest a dreary, solitary life.
Note: Passage II is Philip Larkin's 'Mr Bleaney' (The Whitsun Weddings, 1964), which is copyrighted and not reproduced. The speaker takes the shabby rented room of the departed Mr Bleaney, whose landlady recalls his dull routines. He comes to fear that how one lives — 'one hired box' — may measure one's worth.
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