Question

Read this excerpt from Infinite Jest.

Answer 1

Answer:

His explanations depict him as a bit defensive.

Explanation:

Being on the defensive is a seemingly self-protective attitude when a danger is foreseen or someone who can do us harm. Based on this, we can see that the narrator of the text is on the defensive because he tries to protect himself from his past mistakes by persuading people to believe that he is able to work hard and succeed, as he can prove through his prior grades.

Answer 2

The affect is that this narrator wants people to understand that he isnt like any other jock in the school. He wants them to know that he is diffrent.