Soru

Read the following passage carefully before choosing your answer:

"The wind from the estuary brought the scent of low tide and rotting kelp, a damp, heavy smell that Godfrey had tried for thirty years to forget. He stood by the window of the counting-house, his spectacles pushed up onto his forehead, staring at the masts of the merchant vessels clustered in the harbor. They looked like a forest of charred pine trees, dead and rigid against the yellow fog. It was a foolish comparison, he knew—the sort of romantic indulgence that his father would have dismissed with a grunt and a stroke of the ledger-pen. One did not find poetry in freight invoices. Yet, as the tide slowly receded, exposing the glistening mudflats where the gulls bickered over scraps of fish, Godfrey felt a strange, hollow sensation in his throat. It was not regret, precisely; regret implies a choice once had, a crossroads where one might have turned left instead of right. For Godfrey, there had only ever been the straight, cobblestone road from the vicarage to the quay, paved with the solid intentions of his elders. He turned back to the desk, where the ink was drying on the shipping manifest, and wondered if the fog would delay the evening post."

The shift in narrative distance from the description of the external harbor scene to Godfrey’s internal monologue primarily serves to achieve which of the following effects?