Read the excerpt below and answer the question. Then I carried the sack about a hundredyards across the grass and through the willows east of the house, to
a shallow lake that was five mile wide and full of rushes-and ducks too, you might say, in the season. There
was a slough or a creek leading out of it on the other side that went miles away, I don't know where, but it
didn't go to the river. (p. 37)

answer: first person

explanation:

answer: the correct answer is that he still ridicules people that look different.

explanation: in "the nose"   by nikolai gogol, the author sets up a satirical view of russian society. the book is divided into three parts and tells the story of collegiate assessor ('major') kovalyov, who gets up one morning without his nose. he later finds out that his nose has developed a life by itself, and has apparently surpassed him by attaining the rank of state councillor. the short story showcases the obsession with social rank that plagued russia after peter the great introduced the table of ranks. by allowing commoners to attain hereditary nobility through service to the state, a large population was given the chance to move up in social status. this opportunity, however, also gave way to large bureaucracies, in which many of gogol's characters worked.