Question

Read this excerpt from "A Visit from the Goon Squad." That’s when he began singing the songs he’d been writing for years underground, songs no one had ever heard, or anything like them—“Eyes in My Head,” “X’s and O’s,” “Who’s Watching Hardest”—ballads of paranoia and disconnection ripped from the chest of a man you knew just by looking had never had a page or a profile or a handle or a handset, who was part of no one’s data, a guy who had lived in the cracks all these years, forgotten and full of rage, in a way that now registered as pure. Based on the details in this excerpt, it can be inferred that Scotty

Answer 1

It can be inferred that Scotty was confused by having gone unnoticed for so long.

Answer 2

Answer: has learned how to hide his true emotions.

From this excerpt, we learn that Scotty is a man who has learned to hide his true emotions. We are told that Scotty put his emotions into songs that he had been writing for years underground, yet that no one had heard them before. The passage also tells us that he was not in contact with anyone. He was "part of no one's data," and had lived "forgotten and full of rage" for years.