Mike's grandmother confuses him with her dead husband, as they have the same name and they both wear moustaches. Mike goes along because he realizes how much pain her grandmother is enduring, she desperately needs to be forgiven for something she did. Mike tries to set her right but there is no point in it, he is scared of the consequences if she finds out the truth, and he realizes that his grandmother is a human being with a life, a story and some mistakes she has made. And he doesn't want her to have something to feel guilty about, as he does.
Answer and Explanation:
Why does the speaker name so many kinds of workers?
In his poem "I Hear America Singing", Walt Whitman mentions several kinds of workers: the mason, the carpenter, the seamstress, the shoemaker, and so on. The reason behind this is that the author is trying to make sure he is representing America's working class and its beautiful variety of professions in this poem. Of course, he cannot mention each and every profession there is, but he does speak of so many in an attempt to make workers feel represented, seen.
What is the effect of these references?
Those references value each individual's hard work. This poem is, after all, a celebration of each person's uniqueness, a homage to their building America with their own hands. Whitman wants to convey the message that it is the working class that makes this country a wonderful place to live in. It is their hard work that makes America such a beautiful nation.