Intricate means <span>very complicated or detailed. something made up of many small parts would be intricate</span>
Duplicity means deceitful so kinda like double-sided or a liar <span />
The reader can tell this passage is written in the third-person omniscient point of view as the narrator knows the feelings and emotions of all characters. In this case, narrator is describing not only Enrico’s father emotions by the use the phrase “His dad felt confident…” but also Enrico’s feelings as in the phrase “feeling like a failure”.
The third-person omniscient point of view is a literary resource used when narrating a story and allows the readers to know more details and a full perspective of the characters in the story.
