Which of the following statements best describes the speaker’s point of view towards the grandfather?
A. The speaker cannot understand the grandfather’s death because the speaker is only four.
B. The speaker wonders what life will be like without the beloved grandfather.
C. As the speaker remembers their childhood, they realize they are relieved by their grandfather’s death.
D. As the speaker remembers childhood, they are emotionally reserved about their grandfather’s death.

I was four in this photograph fishing
with my grandparents at a lake in Michigan.
My brother squats in poison ivy.
His Davy Crockett cap
sits squared on his head so the raccoon tail
flounces down the back of his sailor suit.

My grandfather sits to the far right
in a folding chair,
and I know his left hand is on
the tobacco in his pants pocket
because I used to wrap it for him
every Christmas. Grandmother's hips
bulge from the brush, she's leaning
into the ice chest, sun through the trees
printing her dress with soft
luminous paws.

I am staring jealously at my brother;
the day before he rode his first horse, alone.
I was strapped in a basket
behind my grandfather.
He smelled of lemons. He's died—

but I remember his hands.

Respuesta :

The answer is D.

(A.) doesn’t make sense because this is a flashback to when the author was four, which means they are older and able to comprehend and remember the past.

(B.) doesn’t make sense because they are no longer four so they have already lived to know what it’s like without a grandfather.

(C.) doesn’t make sense because we can’t infer from the text that he was relieved the grandfather is gone.