"His use of the first-person singular pronoun “I” shows that he feels empowered and free."
I think it is D) By the end of the story - no one could believe it - the main character was dead
Explanation:
thin= Thinnest famous= most famous
The newspaper clerk said that he's worried that the newspaper's reputation will go down because of the nonsense Kovaloff has given. This is the reason that the newspaper clerk has given to Major Kovaloff for not being able to run his ad. This part of a story is taken from "The Nose" story written by Nikolai Gogol.
