Read the excerpt from The Tell-Tale Heart.
It grew louder, I say, louder every moment!—do you mark me well I have told you that I am nervous: so I am. And now at the dead hour of the night, amid the dreadful silence of that old house, so strange a noise as this excited me to uncontrollable terror. Yet, for some minutes longer I refrained and stood still. But the beating grew louder, louder! I thought the heart must burst. And now a new anxiety seized me—the sound would be heard by a neighbour!
The best way to summarize the narrator’s internal conflict is that he is
A indecisive about killing the old man.
B confused by the odd quiet in the house.
C afraid he will lose his nerve and run away.
D worried his own heart will explode from terror.