Based on the excerpt, we can see that the narrator's father is against his going to the sea, as shown in option B. In this same excerpt, the sentence "tending directly to the life of misery which was to befall me," suggests that the story will not have a happy ending.
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According to reading the text, we can see that:
- The narrator has a great fascination for life at sea.
- He wants to travel by sea, as it is the only job that interests him.
- In addition, being the third child, he is not required to take on any professional position.
- However, at the end of the paragraph, the narrator shows that when he spoke about the desire to sail, his family was highly against it.
His father disapproved of him and his mother and friends begged him to abandon this idea, because the life of a sailor is very miserable, which showed that his life would be too.
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