Question

The Reward of Enterprise by Ward Muir

Which text evidence provides support for the inference that the narrator is an older person?

a. "I'm a novelist, as you know, but if I hadn't had to take to writing I'd have been rolling stone by profession and inclination."
b. "You understand I was by way of being a bit venturesome, as a young man."
c. "In my more philosophic moods I perceive that, really, it was sheer luck . . . this occurrence about which you've asked me to tell you."
d. "Nominally I was the purser, actually I was the Captain's guest."

Answer 1

The best text evidence that supports the inference that the narrator is an older person is:

**c. "In my more philosophic moods I perceive that, really, it was sheer luck . . . this occurrence about which you've asked me to tell you."**

This statement suggests a level of reflection and introspection that typically comes with age and experience, indicating that the narrator has had time to contemplate past events and their significance.