AP English Literature and Composition Quiz
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Read the following excerpt from a short story:
In the small town newspaper office, Grant wrote obituaries with a care that surprised him. He had expected the job to be grim, but it felt more like translation—turning a whole life into a few paragraphs that could fit beside weather and advertisements.
When he wrote his own father's, he found himself lingering over minor details: the way his father whistled while shaving, the habit of saving rubber bands in a jar. Grant realized he was trying to smuggle love into the margins.
Writing, he thought, was a net thrown into deep water.
What is the primary function of the metaphor "a net thrown into deep water" in the excerpt?
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