For several days ensuing, her name was unmentioned by either Usher or myself: and during this period I was busied in earnest endeavors to alleviate the melancholy of my friend. What does this excerpt reveal about the narrator of the story?
a. It describes what the narrator knows from his past.
b. It describes what the narrator experiences in the story.
c. It provides an inference drawn by the narrator.
d. It provides a criticism voiced by the narrator.

B.It describes what the narrator experiences in the story.

Explanation:

B.It describes what the narrator experiences in the story.

an informal structure in a bureaucracy would be something like so-called "office politics". where there's a formal structure set up for the organization, but then an informal subculture as well that has a way of organizing the bureaucracy further. this can be positive because it sets up an added degree of organization, albeit informal, within the bureaucracy.