Read this quotation from the narrative:

I received the tidings of her death with much the same emotions i should have probably felt at the death of a stranger.

which best describe Douglass's attitude about his mothers death?

Douglass didn't really have that much grief with his mother's death because it states he had the same emotion he would have with a stranger. A stranger to Douglass wouldn't mean that much and he wouldn't have grief. He wasn't that upset about his mother's death.