Read the excerpt from "The Tell-Tale Heart.” If still you think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body. The night waned, and I worked hastily, but in silence. First of all I dismembered the corpse. I cut off the head and the arms and the legs. The narrator of this excerpt is unreliable because
Answer
A
he claims to be rational while committing an irrational act.
B
he is very intelligent but not highly educated.
C
he is very naive and inexperienced.
D
he wants to be caught for the crime he has just committed.
Explanation
The narrator insists that he is not mad and presents his actions as careful and rational. But dismembering a person and hiding the body are extreme, disturbing acts, which undermine his claim that he is sane. This contrast makes him unreliable: choice A, he claims to be rational while committing an irrational act.
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