Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Small indeed was my appetite. This inexplicable incident, this reversal of my previous experience, seemed, like the Babylonian finger on the wall, to be spelling out the letters of my judgment; and I began to reflect more seriously than ever before on the issues and possibilities of my double existence. What conclusion can the reader draw about Dr. Jekyll from this excerpt? He is a spiritual man devoted to his religious studies. He is concerned about the course of his experiment. He is worried about the financial responsibility of a double life. He is afraid of being exposed as a fraud.

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Chaney

15 January, 04:15

Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Small indeed was my appetite. This inexplicable incident, this reversal of my previous experience, seemed, like the Babylonian finger on the wall, to be spelling out the letters of my judgment; and I began to reflect more seriously than ever before on the issues and possibilities of my double existence. What conclusion can the reader draw about Dr. Jekyll from this excerpt? He is a spiritual man devoted to his religious studies. He is concerned about the course of his experiment. He is worried about the financial responsibility of a double life. He is afraid of being exposed as a fraud.

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Reuben Strong · Answer 1

He is concerned about the course of his experiment.

Explanation:

As stated in the excerpt from "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," by Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr Jekyll gives deep and careful thought to his double existence as Jekyll and Hyde. In that respect, he speculates about what might occur with his double life during his experimentation as the evil Hyde.