In the excerpt at the right, Odysseus is watching the performance of a bard, a minstrel like Homer himself. Suddenly he finds himself listening to
the story of the fall of Troy and of his own part in it. What is his reaction? Notice
the two things that are being compared. What does the comparison
help to emphasize?

the narrator is saying that the old lady made her feel uncomfortable. you know this because they say "i found that rather irksome", "perhaps it was her being so upright and trim", and "i don't think it was that, because i thought that quaintly pleasant." hope this !

the rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle is the lithosphere.     answer   crust and outer part of the mantle.