Question

read the excerpt from notes of a native son.

he had lived and died in an intolerable bitterness of spirit and it frightened me, as we drove him to the graveyard through those unquiet, ruined streets, to see how powerful and overflowing this bitterness could be and to realize that this bitterness now was mine.

which words does baldwin use to introduce his overarching problem?

○ it frightened me
○ as we drove him
○ to see how powerful
○ to realize that

Explanation:

The overarching problem is the narrator inheriting the bitter, destructive spirit of his father. The phrase "it frightened me" signals the start of confronting this distressing realization, introducing the core conflict of inheriting this painful, overwhelming bitterness. The other options set the scene or elaborate on the observation, but do not introduce the central problematic realization.

Answer:

it frightened me