In that year I had had time to become aware of the meaning of all my father’s bitter warnings, had discovered the secret of his proudly pursed lips and rigid carriage: I had discovered the weight of white people in the world. I saw that this had been for my ancestors and now would be for me an awful thing to live with and that the bitterness which had helped to kill my father could also kill me. Which best explains this excerpt’s role in the problem-and-solution structure of the passage? The excerpt presents the solution to the overarching problem in the passage. The excerpt sets up a secondary problem addressed by the passage. The excerpt presents the solution to a secondary problem in the passage.