Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.To cast in my lot with Jekyll, was to die to those appetites which I had long secretly indulged and had of late begun to pamper. To cast it in with Hyde, was to die to a thousand interests and aspirations, and to become, at a blow and forever, despised and friendless.

The excerpt presents a personal dilemma: joining Jekyll would mean giving up indulged appetites, while joining Hyde would mean losing his interests and becoming despised and friendless. These first-person reflections reveal Jekyll’s private thoughts, so the correct choice is “show the reader Jekyll’s thoughts.”

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