Call me Ishmael. Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular
to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off
the spleen and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly
November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every
funerall meet, and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to
prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off - then, I account it high time
to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his
sword; I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it almost all men in their degree, some time
or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me.
What purpose is served in the paragraph by the sentence which begins, "Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth..?
A)
It gives us useful advice for life's difficult moments.
It gives us a significant glimpse into the narrator's mindset.
It lets us know that we can trust the narrator
It suggests that we cannot trust the narrator