Question

Which statement best describes the narrative structure of the story? (The Oval Portrait)

Answer 1

After reading the short story "The Oval Portrait," by Edgar Allan Poe, we can choose the following as the statement which best describes the narrative structure:

B. The narrator learns the history of a painter and his wife after seeing a portrait.

What happens in the story?

• The narrator, who reveals that his health condition is not good, spends the night at a mansion. Since he is not feeling well, he is unable to fall asleep.

• He chooses to stay up, looking at the paintings in his room, and reading about them in a book he found on top of his pillow. He finally notices the portrait of a beautiful young woman.

• He reads about that portrait in the book. He learns that the poor woman was married to the painter, but she died while he was finishing the picture.

With the information above in mind, we can choose letter B as the best option.

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