Bring me up the newspaper it is only drawing room​

What is the narrators main conflict in this passage

Write approximately 100 words reflecting on your 7-question reading strategy activity. how correct were your first two predictions? what questions worked for you within that activity? what questions didn't? were these reading strategies something you do unconsciously when you read anyway, or were they very foreign ideas? the more you know about how you read, the better you become as a reader. what did you learn about yourself as a reader?

"and descant on mine own deformity: " what does the word descant mean in this shakespeare play richard iii, act i, scene i?