Question

Which phrases expresses how the word concession is used in this passage from the story "Steeled"?

As I got older, though, I was allowed to sit with my father and watch him eat the car. I knew this concession had not come easily and that it was always under debate; often at night I could hear them arguing about it in their room with the door shut, and though I couldn't often make out the words, I knew from the pitch of their voices that it was the car they were talking about, the car, and my father, and me.

strong resistance
burning desire
reluctant compromise
heated argument

Answer 1

reluctant compromise

Step-by-step explanation:

The phrase that expresses how the word concession is used in this passage from the story "Steeled" is "reluctant compromise".

This is because, according to the story, the narrator was allowed to sit with my father and watch him eat the car which was a reluctant compromise on his father's part because he often heard his father and mother debating the decision.