Read the excerpt below and answer the question. Then they tucked the old man into a beautiful room, which was the spare room, an
d in the night some time he got powerful thirsty and clumb out on to the porch-roof and slid down a stanchion and traded his new coat for a jug of forty-rod, and clumb back again and had a good old time; and towards daylight he crawled out again, drunk as a fiddler, and rolled off the porch and broke his left arm in two places, and was most froze to death when somebody foundhim after sun-up. (p. 26) In the passage above, which element of characterization does Twain use to convey information about Pap? physical description beliefs actions interactions
Why is he a drunk, because he gets "drunk as a fiddler".
Why is he careless, because that does not sound very safe to "clumb out on to the porch-roof and slid down a stanchion". Also he sounds kind of dumb to sell a coat for forty-rod whisky to get drunk. "traded his new coat for a jug of forty-rod".
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