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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Main Street by Sinclair Lewis: took his thumb. He looked down at the baby seriously.
He burst out, "All right. I'll do it. I'll stay here
one year. Save. Not spend so much money on clothes. And
then I'll go East, to art-school. Work on the side-tailor shop,
dressmaker's. I'll learn what I'm good for: designing clothes,
stage-settings, illustrating, or selling collars to fat men. All
settled." He peered at her, unsmiling.
"Can you stand it here in town for a year?"
"With you to look at?"
"Please! I mean: Don't the people here think you're an
odd bird? (They do me, I assure you!)"
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