The passage doesn’t indicate that the musicals would jump between events without giving the information necessary to understand the chronology or context. The musicals described in the passage had a narrative; the narratives were just interrupted with musical performances. This description of a novel that depicts an unrelated series of events is not the analogy we are looking for.

The passage doesn’t describe musicals as showing a single event from many different perspectives that eventually come together, so this isn’t a good analogy. We are looking for an example with a narrative that is interrupted; (B) does not do this.

The passage doesn’t describe musicals as showing a number of characters experiencing a typical day, so this isn’t a good analogy. We are looking for an example with a narrative that is interrupted; (C) does not do this.

(D) says that the novel pauses to provide relevant information; the 1930s musicals were notable because the interruptions were only tangentially related to the plot.

This description of a novel with a narrative about a single day that pauses for stylistically elaborate scenes about life in general aligns with the author’s description of 1930s musicals, which had narratives that were interrupted with performances only tangentially related to the plot.