easy · Act reading
Read the following passage, then answer the question. In the years after the war, my grandfather rarely spoke of what he had seen, but he never threw anything away. A bent nail, a length of string, a jar of mismatched buttons—each had its drawer, its purpose waiting to be discovered. As a child I thought him merely thrifty. Only later did I understand that for a man who had once had everything taken from him, keeping even the smallest object was a quiet way of insisting that nothing need ever be lost again. The narrator's attitude toward the grandfather by the end of the passage is best described as:
- amused, because the grandfather's habit of saving useless objects strikes the narrator as silly.
- understanding, because the narrator comes to see meaning behind the grandfather's saving of small things.
- indifferent, because the narrator never figures out why the grandfather kept so many objects.
- resentful, because the grandfather forced the narrator to store his collection of buttons and nails.
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