The passage begins with the narrator’s description of akakiy as someone whose arrival in the department no one can remember. how does this description contribute to the passage as a whole? question 1 options: it highlights the incompetence of the other workers in akakiy’s department. it casts doubt on the sympathy that some of akakiy’s colleagues appear to show him. it calls into question the motives of the people who hired akakiy. it establishes the lack of connection between akakiy and his colleagues.

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