In mortals whose obituaries does the narrator mainly remember

He can remember, mainly, obituaries of famous people

Explanation:

In Immortals by Tobias Wolf, we are introduced to a narrator, Mr. Givens, who is a metro editor who writes obituaries for the newspaper. Obituaries written by him are usually not of good quality, and rarely will these obtuaries be remembered by him. But Mr. Givens can remember the obtuaries of famous people like writers he likes, baseball players and movie stars.

this passage has a lot of figurative language like examples are

the day we found the sharks' teeth was foggy and cool.

moisture hung in the air so thick you could almost see it sparkling in the dim sunlight.

figurative language can not be taken seriously it is just sayings.