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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis: perhaps Tinka her ten-year-old, was at all interested in her or entirely aware
that she was alive.
After a rather thorough discussion of all the domestic and social aspects of
towels she apologized to Babbitt for his having an alcoholic headache; and he
recovered enough to endure the search for a B.V.D. undershirt which had, he
pointed out, malevolently been concealed among his clean pajamas.
He was fairly amiable in the conference on the brown suit.
"What do you think, Myra?" He pawed at the clothes hunched on a chair in
their bedroom, while she moved about mysteriously adjusting and patting her
petticoat and, to his jaundiced eye, never seeming to get on with her
dressing. "How about it? Shall I wear the brown suit another day?"
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