What do the following lines from the play illustrate ruth: walter-- (she stops what she is doing and looks at him) walter: (yelling) don't start! ruth: start what? walter: your nagging! where was i? who was i with? how much money did i spend? a. internal conflict b. external conflict c. both internal and external conflict d. neither internal nor external conflict.

The answer is:

C. both internal and external conflict

In literature internal conflict refers to the struggles inside a character, its hopes, its wantings its groth, and external conflict is the struggles that the character has with society, culture, friends and family, this way you can see the internal conflict in the character when he asks all those questions, but at the same time you can see the external confilct when he asks Ruth to stop.

d should be removed as it shows bias