Which description best fits the speaker based on his language use?

I can remember how when I was young, I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body. Now I know it to be merely a function of the mind-and that of the minds that suffer the bereavement.

(from As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner)

a young farmworker

an uneducated trader

an old, philosophical doctor

a vagrant outcast from society

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Sabrina Kennedy

8 December, 03:20

Which description best fits the speaker based on his language use?

I can remember how when I was young, I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body. Now I know it to be merely a function of the mind-and that of the minds that suffer the bereavement.

(from As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner)

a young farmworker

an uneducated trader

an old, philosophical doctor

a vagrant outcast from society

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Abbie Chapman · Answer 1

These lines would best fit an old, philosophical doctor based on his language use. A farmer and uneducated trader and a vagrant wouldn't be able to speak in such a manner probably.