Question

Complete the following sentence by providing a reason in brief. Do not write the question.

In the poem, Telephone Conversation, the speaker on the phone makes a ‘self-confession’ because:

Answer 1

he thinks the owner will be racist toward him. He knows that telling her he is African could cause her to refuse to rent to him, so he does it right away rather than wasting time and effort if she doesn’t want to rent to him because of his race.