Question

Cannibalism in the Cars%0D%0Aby Mark Twain%0D%0A%0D%0AHe was gone. I never felt so stunned, so distressed, so bewildered in my life. But in my soul I was glad he was gone. With all his gentleness of manner and his soft voice, I shuddered whenever he turned his hungry eye upon me; and when I heard that I had achieved his perilous affection, and that I stood almost with the late Harris in his esteem, my heart fairly stood still!%0D%0A%0D%0AI was bewildered beyond description. I did not doubt his word; I could not question a single item in a statement so stamped with the earnestness of truth as his; but its dreadful details overpowered me, and threw my thoughts into hopeless confusion. Use the passage to answer the question.%0D%0A%0D%0AIn 1–2 sentences, explain an inference about the narrator based on the details in the passage, and provide at least one piece of strong evidence to support your inference.

Answer 1

The narrator is deeply frightened and unsettled—relieved that the man has gone yet horrified and confused by the man's unwanted attention. Evidence: he says he "shuddered whenever he turned his hungry eye upon me" and that "my heart fairly stood still," and calls himself "bewildered beyond description."