Which definition of bitter is used in this passage?
an expression of deep pain, grief, or regret
a deep cynicism toward others
distasteful or distressing to the mind
I then, very cleverly, left all the rest to my
mother, who suggested to my father, as I
knew she would, that it would not be very
nice to let such a kind woman make the trip
for nothing. Also, since it was a
schoolteacher, I imagine that my mother
countered the idea of sin with the idea of
"education," which word, even with my
father, carried a kind of bitter weight.
-"Notes of a Native Son,"
James Baldwin