Read the excerpt below and answer the question. and parallel to this total displacement of his physical space iron had totally replaced his time or blocked or separated him from time. as if time in its rigid tick tock trajectory were thwarted by the crumpled metallic maze. based on the excerpt above, what can you infer about what has happened to fredo?

This answer was originally submitted on another question by TortoiseKnight.

A. If he had  broken free from his isolated world he made for himself, time would still continue on. Also, C can't be the option, because time wouldn't be affected by destroyed iron. Because he kept himself away from others, time didn't matter to him.

now, of course, the quality and the seasonability of these winter dreams varied, but the stuff of them remained.   they persuaded dexter several years later to pass up a business course at the state university—his father, prospering now, would have paid his way—for the precarious advantage of attending an older and more famous university in the east, where he was bothered by his scanty funds. but do not get the impression, because his winter dreams happened to be concerned at first with musings on the rich, that there was anything merely snobbish in the boy. he wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people—he wanted the glittering things themselves. often he reached out for the best without knowing why he wanted it—and sometimes he ran up against the mysterious denials and prohibitions in which life indulges.

there you go thats what we are missing