In the beginning of the story, O. Henry captures the reader's attention by A. introducing the conflict and villain of the story.
B. telling us the importance of giving gifts at Christmas,
C. using lengthy, complete sentences that announce the joyful arrival of Christmas.
D. using sentence fragments and emphasizing a small amount of money just before Christmas.

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the correct answer option for this is: false.

explanation:

we are given the following statement 'hawthorne thought of himself as a novelist' which is false.

the truth is that nathaniel hawthorne thought of himself as a romancer, rather than a novelist.

though it is ironic of him of him to consider himself a romancer rather than a novelist despite of the innocent women killings in the salem witch trials which occurred in colonial massachusetts between 1692 and 1693 .

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