Read the excerpt from "The Adventure of the Mysterious Picture.""And now for the haunted chamber," said the Irish captain, takin
g his candle."Aye, who’s to be the hero of the night?" said the gentleman with the ruined head."That we shall see in the morning," said the old gentleman with the nose: "whoever looks pale and grizzly will have seen the ghost.""Well, gentlemen," said the Baronet, "there’s many a true thing said in jest."How does the excerpt exemplify Gothic fiction?a. by revealing an unhinged psychological stateb. by allowing readers to imagine the most dire conclusionc. by involving the narrator with an odd cast of charactersd. by illustrating the confused plans of the narrator
c. By involving the narrator with an odd cast of characters.
Explanation:
Washington Irving's collective book of "Tales of a Traveler" includes the section of "The Adventures of the Mysterious Picture". This story deals with the strange, somewhat horror story of a group of travelers staying in a mansion of one of their friends.
This group were then told by their host that there is a haunted chamber but it will be seen whose room was the next morning. They will have to wait to see who the hero of the night will be. This story is infused with elements or horror, with the narrator of the story unable to sleep peacefully in the chamber allotted to him. This excerpt given in the question exemplify Gothic fiction in involving an odd cast of characters with the narrator.
By summarizing the excerpt we can extract the correct answer among the given options. We can observe the dialogues and certain characters in the excerpt. The characters look odd because one of them is Irish captain, another one is gentleman with the ruined head and gentleman with the nose. And there is nothing extra presented in the excerpt. Therefore, the correct answer is the third option: by involving the narrator with an odd cast of characters
