This coda suggests something like a victory over all of those worries of unpreparedness as the worried rhetoric of "not yet there" gives way to a much more confident language of present completion, the "now."

这个终结暗示着,对所有的尚未准备好的忧虑的完全克服,一种对现在已经完成的事业的,自信和满足“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So what you have is the account of Richard and his friends talking in the past, and you have the present narrator's parsing of how this language relates to topics that impinge upon their very context, the racial realities of the South.

理查和朋友的对话,呈现在面前，同时加入了陈述,关于这语言如何与影响上下文的话题相关，文中提到南方的种族现实。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选