How does the descriptive nature of this excerpt to build tension in the text? it develops a shocking and horrifying image of the narrator's experience followed by his attempts to forget what happens. it contributes to the reader’s confusion about the narrator’s experience and why he chooses to tell it. it slowly reveals the narrator’s unsettling experience to the reader understand why it affects him so profoundly. it suggests that the narrator’s experience is not fully described and there are more gruesome details that he omits.