Act Reading 2.3 Prose Fiction by Shmoop

Here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by revenge. A dish best served cold... or hot and deep-fried if you're needin' some comfort food. Which of the following best describes the narrator's beliefs about revenge? The narrator believes that wrongs can be corrected, or redressed, by getting revenge, but that the redress doesn't count if the avenger is caught and punished. So, we're on the hunt for the answer choice that reflects this hardcore attitude. (C) is totally wrong. Forgive and forget? Yeah, right. That's the opposite of our revenge-driven narrator's philosophy. It's the narrator who wants revenge, not Fortunato, so we can nix choice (D). Our narrator is not about getting punished at all. Choice (A) can be eliminated as well. Answer (C) sums up the narrator's philosophy that it's OK to take revenge on somebody as long as you don't get caught. Sounds like a good basis for a stable society to us; what could possibly go wrong?