How does the fact that the mother in "charles" spends the majority of the story at home affect the plot? keep in mind that the narrator of the story is the mother. question 4 options: it allows her to revel at her son's imagination. it forces the narrator to rely on laurie's account of events, which allows her to remain ignorant of his behavior. it causes the mother to only see laurie behaving politely and kindly, so she never suspects that he is lying to her. it leads her to suspect that the teacher is to blame for charles' misbehavior.