Answer:
They are hypocritical or false because he believes they are pretending not to hear the beating heart .
You didn’t put a picture of the passage so there’s no way to know which one. So I’ll just give you info about each topic
ANSWER: If it’s a NARRATIVE passage then it’s a story probably using fictional language describing a made-up story about a car and a dog.
ANSWER: If it’s a PERSUASIVE passage then it’s not a story it’s a passage trying to convince you to do something or think something.
So if it’s a story it’s narrative if it’s trying to convince you of something it’s persuasive.
Hope this helps !!
You need to put a apostrophe to make it an possessive noun
I would say the correct answer is that the insane live in a reality of their own.
The protagonist of the story wasn't always insane; however, over time, he grew mad because of his landlord's eye of a vulture. He began seeing things, thinking that the eye made him do crazy things, such as kill the old man. After that, this mad man kept hearing the dead man's heart beating, which is how he revealed his crime to the policemen who came to the house to investigate.