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.

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Mayra Wiley

10 March, 00:01

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.

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Answers (2)

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Sandoval · Answer 1

I think the answer is b

Carissa Leblanc · Answer 2

A, both objective descriptions and subjective commentaries.

Objective commentaries are ones without emotion or judgment. The narrator is describing just what he sees without any personal opinion thrown in. He does this when he describes the dust in the air.

Subjective commentaries include emotion and judgment. When the narrator summarizes the coach's statements there is personal opinion thrown in when he talks about "a pleasant formality".