'What's Gussie been doing?'
‘Gussie is making a perfect idiot of himself.'
"To one who knew young Gussie as well as I did, the words opened up a wide field for speculation."

The remarks in these lines serve mainly to what?

1) suggest that Gussie is known for foolish behavior.

2) emphasize the narrator’s desire to help Aunt Agatha.

3) cast doubt on Aunt Agatha’s reason for visiting the narrator.

4) imply that the narrator is unconcerned with Gussie’s well-being.

d. murder of a son and cooking the son for a feast

procne murdered her son and served him to tereus, her husband and her son's father. she did this out of revenge. tereus raped her sister, philomela, and cut her tongue out to keep her from talking. philomela managed to communicate it to procne and procne sought revenge.

tantalus murdered his son and fed him to the gods because he was angry with the gods. the gods punished him by putting him in a pool of water that evaporates when he tries to drink and having fruit hang just out of his reach.

it makes the game seem more impressive.