D, because you can remove the part in parentheses and still have a gramatically correct and coherent sentence.
Use of third person omniscient narrator allows the author to give the reader the private and intimate details about Tom's life and character.
<u>Explanation:</u>
In "The devil and Tom Walker", Washington Irving makes use of third person narrative. With the use of this, he makes the readers know about the private and intimate details about the life of Tom and his character.
For example he describes the unhappy marriage : her voice was often heard in wordy warfare with her husband; and his face showed that their conflicts were not simply confined to words. If it was told in the first person point of view, it would have told intimate but inaccurate details about Tom which would have been biased.
<span>This would be the answer to your question:
The passage explains how Elizabethans believed that divine intervention caused imbalanced humors.
Hope this helps. </span>
He is scared that he would die so he did not want the sheep by him or the clock.
