From paragraph 11 of the excerpt of "there’s a man in the habit of hitting me on the head with an umbrella," what conclusion might the reader draw about the main characters?
that the man with the umbrella, although maddening, should fear for his life
that the man with the umbrella and the narrator will inevitably arrange a duel
that the narrator and the man with the umbrella are intricately linked
that the narrator, although altered, retains his ability to reason logically