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The anecdote of Mrs. Pike’s and Leota’s visit to the freak show is central to the story. Which lines foreshadow the importance the experience will play later in the story?

“All he can do, he can move his head just a quarter of an inch. A course he looks just terrible.”

“Did Mrs. Pike like the petrified man?” asked Mrs. Fletcher. “Not as much as she did the others,” said Leota deprecatingly.

“She told her Mr. Pike was as true to her as he could be and besides would come into some money.”

“We went to the travelin’ freak show yestiddy after work. I got through early—nine o’clock. In the vacant store next door?”

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The answer is B. “She told her Mr. Pike was as true to her as he could be and besides would come into some money.”

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The answer is “She told her Mr. Pike was as true to her as he could be and besides would come into some money.”

Mrs. Pike has used her perception or insight to see through the disguise of the Petrified Man' she and Leota had seen at a traveling freak show. The man is a fugitive criminal from California, with a price of five hundred dollars on his head, and Mrs. Pike has recognized his photograph in a crime magazine owned by Leota.

What point of view is petrified man?

The short story “Petrified Man” by Eudora Welty is about two women—Leota, a beautician, and Mrs. Fletcher, her customer—who spend the entire story gossiping in a beauty parlor. The story is told in a limited third-person point of view, where the psychic distance of the view places the reader right next to Mrs.

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