Question

Read this quotation from the narrative:

I received the tidings of her death with much the same emotions i should have probably felt at the death of a stranger.
which best describe Douglass's attitude about his mothers death?

Answer 1

Douglas wasn't very upset because she abandoned him as a child so he didn't really know her.

Answer 2

Douglass didn't really have that much grief with his mother's death because it states he had the same emotion he would have with a stranger. A stranger to Douglass wouldn't mean that much and he wouldn't have grief. He wasn't that upset about his mother's death.