Question

Read the passage given and answer the following questions.

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning

over in my mind ever since. ‘Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,’ he told me, ‘just

remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.’ He

didn’t say any more but we’ve always been unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I

understood that he meant a great deal more than that. In consequence I’m inclined to reserve

all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the

victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this

quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly

accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men.

Most of the confidences were unsought—frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a

hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was

quivering on the horizon—for the intimate revelations of young men or at least the terms in

which they express them are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions. Reserving

judgments is a matter of infinite hope. I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget

that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat a sense of the fundamental

decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.

a. Explain the father’s advice.

b. Why is the speaker accused of being a politician?

c. Why is the speaker afraid of people’s “revelations”​

Answer 1

Answer:

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In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning