Read the excerpt from "Fern” in Cane.

From force of habit, I suppose, I held Fern in my arms—that is, without at first noticing it. Then my mind came back to her. Her eyes, unusually weird and open, held me. Held God. He flowed in as I’ve seen the countryside flow in. Seen men. I must have done something—what, I don’t know, in the confusion of my emotion.

Which statement best describes Toomer’s use of punctuation in this excerpt?

The em dashes imply that the narrator is flustered during this situation.
The em dashes establish an interruption in the narrator’s thought process.
The commas show that the narrator is able to be calm in this moment.
The commas suggest that the narrator feels conflicting emotions.