A one page printout showing how to put together a coffee table that came in a box Is the authors purpose to inform,persuade,or entertain

And explain the answer

Allegorical. An Allegory is a story where the characters and events symbolise ideas about human life or for a political or historical situation. Goodman is allegorically referring to his wife, Faith, delaying his departure from home and his arrival, symbolically, this represents Brown's faith in God which has kept him from the devil's clutches before this moment.