Reading

Question

Use the passage above from the short story “The Interlopers” by Saki to answer the following questions.

This question has two parts.

Part A

The reader can infer that -
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the men cannot act of on their impulses because they’re both being restrained
the men are strangers but consider one another enemies and feel a heightened need to protect their homes from one another
the men are having reservations about killing one another because they were not raised as violent people
the men feel desperate to flee their encounter

Answer 1

The answer would be:

the men are strangers but consider one another enemies and feel a heightened need to protect their homes from one another.

This inference highlights the central conflict between the characters and their motivations in the story.