Read the excerpt from a short story The Sonoran Desert route was his favorite. His friends were surprised he could endure the solitude of it, but
he cherished the barren miles. Today he'd passed a mile of verbena in full bloom, followed by ten miles with
nothing but sagebrush. The next leg promísed cliffs, and he loved to imagine scaling them as he traversed the
desolate highway. In fact, one was rising in the distance, and the highway would bear right around it. He
looked down to cool the temperature, looked up again, and stared. The grill of a tractor trailer, in his lane, was
bearing down upon him.
How does the excerpt exemplify the ideas King describes in "Danse Macabre"?
O Itallows readers to approach a "forbidden door"
O It provides a single powerful spectacle" for the imagination's eye.
O It forces readers to "grapple" with their own mortality
O It introduces an unlikely "dancing partner."