Question

PLEASE HELP ME ASAP!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

He's trying to explain what exactly motivated him, particularly in the second paragraph. It was none of the things that would motivate someone to commit murder. Gain of any kind was out of the question. Feelings were not the motive. Nothing the old man had motivated him.

It was just his eye. So he's in a battle with himself. (That's the first answer).

We are leading up to something and we need to have a background. This is not the climax or the resolution. It is not the falling action -- just the opposite. It is the build up towards the climax.

So the only thing it can be is the exposition which is the second answer.