Pyramus’s quick action hurries the plot to his tragic death.
Its correct the way it is,what you can do if process of elimination to see which one sounds correct.
The answer is
2) the situation continues for years without pause
It is believable that someone gets hit with an umbrella, it also can happen that the narrator thinks about going to the police, or punches the man in the head, but Magic Realism tries to go further from reality in real life situations, this way the hits cointinuing through the years is the magica realism in the story.
