AP English Literature and Composition Quiz
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In the following excerpt, a teenage narrator describes watching his father repair a fence after a storm:
"Dad didn't swear when the post refused to straighten; he just pressed his lips together and leaned in, patient as a machine. I hovered with the nails, pretending I knew what to do, though the hammer felt too heavy for my borrowed confidence. When he finally nodded for one, I handed it over like an offering. The wind pushed at the loose boards, and I hated how the yard looked exposed, like we'd been caught without a shirt on. Dad said, 'It's only wood,' but he kept glancing at the road, the way he did when Mom left, as if expecting something else to come tearing around the corner and take more than it should."
What do the bolded details most strongly suggest about the narrator's perspective?
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