Which excerpt from The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street is an example of direct characterization?

-Don approaches the group, stops a few feet away to stare toward the house, then looks back toward the group.
-The screen door opens and Goodman comes out, a man in his early forties who first greets them smiling and then letting the smile fade as he sees the faces.
-As the people exchange looks. They've all arrived there on an emotion and when hit with a simple question of logic they can't answer.
-Taking in little knots of people who stand around talking in low voices. At the end of each conversation, they look toward Les Goodman's house.

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