Which element of plot does this excerpt from "The Monkey's Paw" best
represent?
But her husband was on his hands and knees groping
wildly on the floor in search of the paw. If he could only
find it before the thing outside got in. A perfect fusillade of
knocks reverberated through the house, and he heard the
scraping of a chair as his wife put it down in the passage
against the door. He heard the creaking of the bolt as it
came slowly back, and at the same moment he found the
monkey's paw, and frantically breathed his third and last
wish.

A. Conflict
B. Climax
c. Conclusion
D. Falling action