Read the excerpt from chapter 23 of the awakening.
the colonel, with little sense of humor and of the fitness of things, related a somber episode of those dark and bitter days, in which he had acted a conspicuous part and always formed a central figure. which statement summarizes the explicit message in the excerpt?
the colonel is a socially awkward story teller.
the colonel endured the brutality of the civil war.
the colonel is always the main character of his own stories.
the colonel was a powerful military figure in his younger days.