Read the excerpt from "The Red-Headed League."

We waited for a little over an hour, but it seemed much longer. We sat in the dark without moving. Suddenly my eyes saw a small light on the stone floor. Then the light grew bigger. And then, without any sound, a hole opened in the floor and a hand came through. A head came through next. A moment later, Vincent Spaulding and Duncan Ross were standing next to the hole.

Readers could best connect with this excerpt by thinking about

a time when they had to wait for something to happen.
what is going to happen next in the story.
any friends they have named Vincent or Duncan.
the way modern-day bank robbers operate instead.

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answer: age of the protagonists.

dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by james joyce, published in 1914. they tell the stories of the irish middle class in and around dublin in the early years of the 20th century.

joyce divides the collection into three sections dealing with childhood, adolescence and maturity. therefore, one pattern he uses to organize his stories is the age of the protagonists. the initial stories deal with children, and as the stories continue, they focus on progressively older people.

quintessence, core, heart, crux, nucleus, substance, principle, fundamental quality, sum the origin of a word and the historical development of its meaning. insight, understanding, awareness, wisdom, education, learning, knowledge,