In the years that followed, i failed her many times, each time asserting my will, my right to fall short of expectations. i didn't get straight as. i didn't become class president. i didn't get into stanford. i dropped out of college. which characterization technique does the author use?

Indirect characterization

Explanation:

The indirect characterization is described by the author from the acts, attitudes and behaviors of the character throughout the plot. The portrait of the character is traced, mainly the psychological and the social, resorting to facts and / or attitudes. It is the reader who has to interpret the qualities defects and appearance of a character, through the context in which he is inserted and the attitudes that this character has before different situations.

d) the narrator even suggested that the white whale, moby d, was ubiquitous and present in every ocean at every moment.  

synonymous.

he was ashamed of himself