Read the excerpt below. What conclusion can you draw about the narrator?

Presently I heard a slight groan, and I knew it was the groan of mortal terror. It was not a groan of pain or of grief – oh, no! – it was the low stifled sound that arises from the bottom of the soul when overcharged with awe.

I knew the sound well. Many a night, just at midnight, when all the world slept, it has welled up from my own bosom, deepening, with its dreadful echo, the terrors that distracted me. I say I knew it well. I knew what the old man felt, and pitied him, although I chuckled at heart.

Question options:

A:He is a lonely person who longs for human connection.


B:He is a cruel person who enjoys torturing others.


C:The character cherishes the night.


D:He can relate to the old man's terror. He's afraid of his own madness.