5.Read this excerpt from "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe.

It was open—wide, wide open—and I grew furious as I gazed upon it.

How does this incident provoke the narrator's decision to murder the old man?


The old man has awakened the narrator, enraging him.

The narrator is angry because the old man can see him.

The sight of the old man's glassy eye fills the narrator with revulsion.

The narrator feels nothing but contempt for the old man