The answer is none of the choices but it is "being teased and mocked by the locals".
"Shooting an Elephant" depicts the experience of the English storyteller, conceivably Orwell himself, called upon to shoot an elephant while filling in as a cop in Burma. Since local people anticipate that he will carry out the activity, he does as such against his better judgment, his anguish expanded by the elephant's slow and excruciating death. The story is viewed as an allegory for English colonialism.
