AP English Literature and Composition Quiz
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"At the bus depot, fluorescent lights flattened every face into the same tired color. The benches were bolted down, their metal slats polished by strangers' impatience. Outside the glass doors, rain stitched the parking lot into a single gray sheet, and the loudspeaker kept mispronouncing towns as if it didn't believe they were real. He sat beneath a timetable that had not been updated in months; its curled corners lifted like fingernails. Each time the doors sighed open, a gust brought in wet asphalt and the faint sweetness of diesel. He checked his phone again though there was no signal here—only the stubborn, blinking "searching." He told himself he liked waiting, that waiting meant possibilities, but his knee bounced hard enough to rattle the bench."
How does the setting most directly shape the characterization of the man?
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