from First Darling of the Morning
I may look like a younger version of my mother but under the skin 1
resemble my father. We are alike in all the important ways. I see his face on
gloomy, rain-heavy days, see how the wind and the rain makes him
melancholy-happy, how it propels him, this kind of subdued weather, and I see
my own soul reflected in him. L, too, love weather like this when the skies are
grey and heavy with rain. Like him, I love the sea more when it is rough and in
turmoil, than when it is calm and orderly. L ton, understand well that
complicated melancholy feeling, because that's when I write my poems and my
stories. It's a feeling I dread and welcome, at the same time. Bad weather frees
something within me, makes me feel large and grand and as big as the world
itself, ready to take on the roaring ocean with a roar of my own. I despise the
ordinary, cloudless, sunny Bombay sky because it makes me feel small and
ordinary and just-me. It doesn't take me outside of myself, doesn't make me
feel powerful and capable of anything, the way a tumultuous day does.
We never discuss any of this, my dad and L. In fact, rm not even sure that
he knows how I feel, only that I like rainy days, also. But I sense all this in him
and it makes me feel close to him I already have a s
spotting loneliness in others, or so I fancy. I figure
anywhere, that something about the way their faces search the skies or that
hollow look in their eyes, tells me who my people are
honed radar for
recognize them
My father happens to be one of my people, even if our mode of expressing
is different. My father is dually cursed-although he feels the same
erary feelings that i
This sentence is from the passage.
"In fact, I'm not even sure that he knows how I feel, only
that I like rainy days, also." (Paragraph 2)
How does this sentence most clearly help to refine the
reader's understanding of the author's relationship with
her father?
O1. It indicates a sense of doubt in the author about
her judgments of her father
t emphasizes a feeling the author has that her
father is puzzled by her behavior.
O2
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introduces the idea that the author's dose
connection to her father also has limits
O4 reflects the author's belief that she and her