English

Van Gamble

30 June, 05:57

Read the excerpt below from the novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith and answer the question that follows. Francie went in trembling. She had never seen a doctor or a nurse in all of her small life. The whiteness of the uniforms, the shiny cruel instruments laid out on a napkin on a tray, the smell of antiseptics, and especially the cloudy sterilizer with its bloody red cross filled her with tongue-tied fright. What is the main conflict in this excerpt? character vs. self character vs. character character vs. nature character vs. society