A Lesson Before Dying

" I had gone to barbershops;I had stood on street corners, and i had gone to many suppers in the quarter.But i had never really listened to what was being said.Then i began to listen, to listen closely to how they taked about their heroes, how they talked about the dead and how great the dead had once been. I heard it everywhere." (p.90)
does this quote characterize Grant? in what way?

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