Why would the author want the reader to respect mercedes's opinion with regard to charles and hal?
because the author does not trust the reader to think rationally
o so that they do not make up their own minds about the men
because the author wants the reader to use mercedes' opinion to understand their characters
because the author does not want the reader to rush to judgement

The author wants the reader to respect Mercedes’s opinion with regards to Charles and Hal because the author wants the reader to use Mercedes’s opinion to understand their characters. The opinion of Mercedes is given in the story that would help the readers in understanding the entire point. The narrative technique have been used for the proper understanding of the characters and the their contribution in the plot development.

i think continuous as the stars that shine and twinkle on the milky way, they

stretched in never-ending line along the margin of a bay; ten thousand saw

i at glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance.