When he found I really took an interest in him he threw himself entirely upon my friendship. He clung to me like a drowning man.
He would walk with me for hours up and down the place of St. Mark—or he would sit until night was far advanced in my apartment. What does this excerpt reveal about the narrator of the story? It describes what the narrator knows from his past. It describes what the narrator experiences in the story. It provides an inference drawn by the narrator. It provides a criticism voiced by the narrator.
It describes what the narrator experiences in the story.
Explanation:
Washington Irving's short story "The Adventure of the Mysterious Stranger" revolves around the story of how the narrator met a strange man who became his companion during his time in Venice. The story is a part of the whole connected book "Tales of a Traveler" that is made up of numerous short stories connected.
In this excerpt, the narrator narrates how he came upon the strange man who he first encountered in the saloon. Soon, he became an ever-present companion to the narrator. This excerpt is a description of what the narrator experiences in the story.
Thus, the <u>correct answer is the second option</u>.
