On the night of the day on which this cruel deed was done, I was aroused from sleep by the cry of fire. The curtains of my bed were in flames. The whole house was blazing. ...I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity. Why did the author MOST LIKELY include the underlined sentence?

to explore the possibility of the fire smoldering long before the cat was dead
to negate any idea that there is a supernatural link between the cat and the fire
to explain how the cat’s death may be a remote factor in the fire
to disprove the connection between the fire, the cat, and the narrator

Read the excerpt from ernest hemingway’s “soldier's home.” his father was in the real estate business and always wanted the car to be at his command when he required it to take clients out into the country to show them a piece of farm property. the car always stood outside the first national bank building where his father had an office on the second floor. now, after the war, it was still the same car. nothing was changed in the town except that the young girls had grown up. how does hemingway’s description of the town as unchanged impact the readers’ perception of krebs? it emphasizes that while the town has remained the same, krebs has changed. it illustrates that krebs despises the town he grew up in because it is boring. it demonstrates that krebs views himself as similar to the other soldiers from his town. it reveals that krebs is jealous of those who were able to stay in town and avoid the war.