阅读下列短文, 从给的四个选项 (A、B、C和D) 中, 选出最佳选项。
(2013·西宁市质检一,C)
A year after graduation, I was offered a position teaching a writing class. Teaching was a profession I had never seriously considered, though several of my stories had been published. I accepted the job without hesitation, as it would allow me to wear a tie and go by the name of Mr. Davis. My father went by the same name, and I liked to imagine people getting the two of us confused. “Wait a minute,” someone might say,“are you talking about Mr. Davis the retired man, or Mr. Davis the respectable scholar?”