Which best explains why melville begins chapter 28 of mobydick with a description of ahab’s physical absence above the ship’s hatches for several days?
a. to show that ahab has no real command over his ship
b. to make ahab’s eventual appearance on deck more dramatic
c. to show that ahab is no longer interested in the whale hunt
d. to make ahab’s eventual appearance on deck predictable
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Read the excerpt from david foster wallace’s infinite jest. my silent response to the expectant silence begins to affect the air of the room, the bits of dust and sportcoat-lint stirred around by the ac’s vents dancing jaggedly in the slanted plane of windowlight, the air over the table like the sparkling space just above a fresh-poured seltzer. the coach, in a slight accent neither british nor australian, is telling c.t. that the whole application-interface process, while usually just a pleasant formality, is probably best accentuated by letting the applicant speak up for himself. in this excerpt, the narrator is providing a, both objective descriptions and subjective commentaries. b. only objective information about people, setting, and events. c. only subjective responses to the things he sees and experiences. d. a compromised interpretation of events due to his unstable condition.