Section: Literature and Composition

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What best describes Fortunato's attitude towards the narrator?

1. Trusting and helpful
2. Trusting and annoyed
3. Confused and suspicious
4. Confused but willing to help
5. Unwilling to help but driven to satisfy his own curiosity

The first option is best because Fortunato -- even though it may be the drink talking -- does appear to take all the narrator's words at face value, and he continues to urge them both on into the catacombs in order to solve the narrator's manufactured "problem."