I believe that your answer is the first option due to how late the crying is, and unlike in "The Tell-Tale Heart" where the heart is constant and represents the slow descent of madness, the cry of the cat only appears at the end.
The portion of the story where it shows the speaker's madness is actually his looking for and finding similarities in the second cat and wishing to kill it.
Hope this was helpful.
Answer:
I'm pretty sure one of them is rushed, but please correct me if I am wrong!
Explanation:
An adverb is a word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word group. It expresses a relation of place, time, circumstance, etc. In this case, it would be expressing a relation of time. Since you are "rushing" you are in a sense moving in time urgently.
Use, painters with a ‘s’ show there’s more than one. So it already presents a multi meaning.
