Which of the following excerpts uses a parenthetical remark to create a conversational style? a. A brooding, melancholy boy -- if we had been following Faulkner's work in 1936, when "Absalom, Absalom!" appeared, we would know that Quentin is preparing to kill himself (the act occurs in "The sound and the Fury", published several years before), and so he is, in a certain respect, already dead, a ghost narrator. But for now he remains somewhat ambiguously alive.

b. It may represent the closest American literature came to producing an analogue for "Ulysses," which influenced it deeply -- each in its way is a provincial Modernist novel about a young man trying to awaken from history -- and like "Ulysses", it lives as a book more praised than read, or more esteemed than enjoyed.

c. He has a Canadian roommate named Shreve -- not an American Yankee, to whom the South might seem offensive (or worse, romantic), but a true foreigner, for whom it is appropriately bizarre.

d. He tells us that Sutpen's Ur-ancestor probably landed in Jamestown on a prisoner-transport ship , and that he grew up in a cabin in the backcountry (in what would become West Virginia), and that he spent time in Haiti