Click to read the passage from "The Black Cat," by Edgar Allan Poe. Then answer the question.
How would a reader most likely feel after reading this paragraph at the
beginning of a story?
A. Confused, because the narrator sounds sane, despite claiming not
to be.
B. Concerned for the narrator's safety, since he claims that someone
has committed a crime against him.
C. Intrigued by why the narrator is about to die.
D. Curious about why the narrator has admitted to lying.

b

Explanation

narrator tells us the poem from the begining

the correct answer is dilapidated.

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the correct answer option for this is: false.

explanation:

we are given the following statement 'hawthorne thought of himself as a novelist' which is false.

the truth is that nathaniel hawthorne thought of himself as a romancer, rather than a novelist.

though it is ironic of him of him to consider himself a romancer rather than a novelist despite of the innocent women killings in the salem witch trials which occurred in colonial massachusetts between 1692 and 1693 .