This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation
'He taught history classes in the room next to hers.
He was quiet, clean and sincere. They could talk together and were friends long before she felt toleration for his personal habits that she identified as love . He was a dreamy unambitious person...who walked over the earth unhurriedly, as conscious of every step and print his footsteps would leave in the dirt'.
Meridian by Alice Walker
The person described in the passage is