Read this excerpt from Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions. The day he was born the wife’s heart stopped, briefly, and she died. Then she came back to life. She’d seen her self suspended above herself. She saw her son, too—said he glowed. When her self rejoined with herself she said she felt a warmth there. Which best describes the purpose of repeating the language "her self" and "herself"? It reflects the wife's account of her consciousness separating from her body. It reflects the wife's feelings of loneliness and solitude as she prepares to give birth. It underscores the wife's confusion about her experience. It underscores the wife's belief that her son is special