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Here’s your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by the invisible man....

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The visitor's manners and way of speaking can best be described as —what?

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And here are the potential answers... [Answers appear]

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All right, so what do we know about our strange visitor? [Outline of person in snowy forest]

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Let’s go through the answer choices and see which one best matches the weird guy we

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meet in the passage.

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Option (A) claims he’s outgoing and enthusiastic.

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However, Mrs. Hall would probably disagree. [Man in bandages and Mrs Hall appears]

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For example, when she asks him to take off his drippy coat, he just says, “No,” without

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even turning around.

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So yeah it’s safe to safe this guy’s not in the market for new friends.

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Choice (B) takes it a little far though. [Stranger in fire]

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The stranger isn’t outright angry and hateful.

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It’s not like he breaks stuff, or insults Mrs. Hall’s taste in decorating. [Stranger throws object through a window]

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Some might argue that answer (D) is the way to go.

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The first thing the stranger does when he enters the inn is demand that a fire be built, [Stranger enters inn]

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which we could say is kinda rude.

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We can forgive him a little bit, though.

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He is coming in from a long walk in a hardcore snowstorm. [Man hiking]

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We might be a little demanding if we were freezing to death.... [Man shivering covered in ice]

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Choice (C) is the best answer.?

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The strangers short answers to Mrs. Hall and demands for a fire are best described as distant

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and abrupt.

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He’s not a total jerk; he’s just not all that good of a communicator.

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And he’s also invisible.

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Probably.

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We can kind of assume that he's invisible, right? [Stranger disappears]

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He's invisible.

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