What is the central conflict of the play in a raisin in the sun? a. the family disagrees about how to spend the insurance money. b. walter doesn’t want his son to sleep on the living-room couch. c. mama won’t look at the papers for the liquor store. d. mama doesn’t want anyone yelling in her house.

What is the effect of the author's choice of the word loathsome rather than hateful in this sentence from the count of monte cristo? two soldiers were accordingly sent for, and the inspector descended a stairway, so foul, so humid, so dark, as to be loathsome to sight, smell, and respiration. it reveals that the unpleasant aspects of the stairway are manmade. it stresses the disgusting, offensive nature of the stairway. it suggests that the soldiers are used to the place and do not hate it. it implies that the effects of the stairway are felt only by the inspector.