optimistic pessimist
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Dear all,
The pasage below is from a novel I read last year. McCreedy, the father, asks his son if he has any idea for his father's birthday.
...Later in the day, when his son Michael came in. McCreedy stopped him before he went up to his room. He was thirteen.
"Your mother is wondering what we might all do on my birthday. If you had any thoughts about it...?
Michael shrugged. It was as if he knew he was untouchable, unconquerable. He was the future. He didn't have to give the present any attention. "No", he said. "Not specially. How old are you anyway?..."
I'd like to ask about the sentences in bold. Who do you think said or thought "He was the future. He didn't have to give the present any attention."?
The narrator? McCreedy? Or his son Michael?
Thanks!
OP
The pasage below is from a novel I read last year. McCreedy, the father, asks his son if he has any idea for his father's birthday.
...Later in the day, when his son Michael came in. McCreedy stopped him before he went up to his room. He was thirteen.
"Your mother is wondering what we might all do on my birthday. If you had any thoughts about it...?
Michael shrugged. It was as if he knew he was untouchable, unconquerable. He was the future. He didn't have to give the present any attention. "No", he said. "Not specially. How old are you anyway?..."
I'd like to ask about the sentences in bold. Who do you think said or thought "He was the future. He didn't have to give the present any attention."?
The narrator? McCreedy? Or his son Michael?
Thanks!
OP