Adam only speaks a few times in Genesis.
He speaks in response to seeing the woman:

This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

Later, he answers the Lord’s question:

Where are you?

And Adam said, I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.

These two statements are very different. He is not especially self aware in speaking of the woman. He states facts, gives her a name and explains why.

But in the second, he uses the word “I” four times. He has become extremely self aware and is only concerned with himself.

What happened between his two statements?

He ate the fruit of the one forbidden tree. The root of sin is selfishness to the exclusion of others.

This is exactly what Adam shows. His nakedness bothers him now because he feels disconnected from God, his wife, and nature itself.

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