What is the conflict in the excerpt?
character versus self
character versus character
character versus society
character versus nature
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claire marveled at her little brother's flawless dive. it looked
effortless now, but she knew he had spent weeks perfecting
the arch of his body and the point of his toes. she wanted to
have a dive like that the type people stop and watch. still,
she could not bring herself to attempt it. after all, her
brother's first twenty or so dives had been awful, with knees
and elbows flailing, claire shuddered to imagine looking like
that in clear view of the entire pool population. and the whole
head-first concept seemed intimidating. she wondered if her
hands would reach the bottom of the pool. maybe some day.
but for now, she decided she would just watch.

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.