Section: Literature and Composition

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What motivates the character's attitudes and behaviors in the passage?

1. A desire to be married
2. A desire to strike down the North
3. A desire for a time of simplicity, purity, and innocence
4. A desire to heal from his neck wound
5. A desire to lash out for the lot he's been given

Inman has so much positivity and nostalgia that he associates with home, and as the passage rolls along, it becomes apparent that he's going to venture out from the hospital and head back to his homeland at all costs. Answer 3 best completes this outcome.