Why does the narrator in sorrentino’s “there’s a man in the habit of hitting me on the head with an umbrella” refuse to take the man with the umbrella to the police station? select all that apply. a. he thinks the police would be just as likely to arrest him. b. he does not want to be bothered with all the questioning. c. he wants to figure out why the man is hitting him with the umbrella first. bhe does not think the man with the umbrella would last long in prison.

The narrator in Sorrentino’s “There’s a Man in the Habit of Hitting Me on the Head with an Umbrella” refuses to take the man with the umbrella to the police station because:

* He thinks the police would be just as likely to arrest him.

* He does not want to be bothered with all the questioning.

Explanation:

The characters in this short story go round and round over the same repetitive behavior cycle, and even when the narrator thinks about several ways to make the other man stop he never does any of them since he finds negative point on doing it, in the case of the police we have this lines in the story “It would have been an unprecedented case. The officer would have looked at me suspiciously, would have asked for my papers, and begin asking embarrassing questions. And he might even have ended up placing me under arrest.”

answer: third

explanation:

at the beginning of the story, elisa just has the small idea of wanting more attention, but as the story progressed, her desire for more attention grew larger. before she talked to the man with the wagon she was just focused on her chrysanthemums but when she talked to him and got some attention she enjoyed it, so she decided to get all dolled up for henry. but when they were on the way to dinner she was so upset because she saw the flowers on the side of the road and realized the man didn't take interest in her like she thought.