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Read the selection below from the short story "The Pit and the Pendulum" by Edgar Allan Poe and answer the
question that follows.
Amid the thought of the fiery destruction that impended, the idea of the coolness of the well came over my soul like balm. I
rushed to its deadly brink. I threw my straining vision below. The glare from the enkindled roof illumined its inmost recesses.
Yet, for a wild moment, did my spirit refuse to comprehend the meaning of what I saw. At length it forced—it wrestled its way
into my soulit burned itself in upon my shuddering reason. O for a voice to speak! oh, horror! oh, any horror but this! With
a shriek I rushed from the margin and buried my face in my hands-weeping bitterly.
Based on the passage above, which statement best summarizes why the reader may not be sympathetic to the narrator?
A. The narrator appears to be weak minded, which is not an admirable character trait.
B. Most readers will not like Poe's use of complicated words and long sentences.
C. Sympathy is something that readers have for animals, not characters from books.
D. Being consumed by fire does not seem to be particularly painful.
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