Its B I think so , I tried
It was the beating of the old man's heart. It's not madness, says the narrator, "but over-acuteness" of his sense of hearing caused by his nervousness, as he says in the opening paragraph of the story. ... The narrator's obsession shifts from the old man's "Evil Eye" to the old man's loudly beating heart.
Answer:
character vs society
Explanation:
Hence the correct answrr is characcter vs society
Oxymoron is used 'deafening silence' those words contradict each other
it implies that their silence is giving kate the same impact as if they were screaming in her ears.
