Question

He was, I think, very handsome. I gather this from photographs and from my own memories of him, dressed in his Sunday best and on his way to preach a sermon somewhere, when I was little. Handsome, proud, and ingrown, "like a toenail," somebody said. Which sentence best explains how the use of simile in the excerpt supports Baldwin's purpose?

Answer 1

I had an ingrown toenail, and it was a pain in the rear end. Yu can't walk, so the simile has to be something not so good.

Answer 2

c. it compares baldwins father bottled-up anger to an ingrown toenail to show the hatred is a condition that can worsen