In the passage, what causes the conflict between the narrator and his friends? A The narrator secretly despises his friends for their mean-spirited pranks, and he visits only to get the better of them. B The friends' laughter causes the narrator to be anxious, for he interprets it as a joke on his behalf. C The friends' exaggerated merriment and predilection to prank the narrator make him paranoid when he visits. D The narrator dislikes the lodgings given to him by his friends.

Read the passage from a raisin in the sun. [lindner: ] but you've got to admit that a man, right or wrong, has the right to want to have the neighborhood he lives in a certain kind of way. and at the moment the overwhelming majority of our people out there feel that people get along better, take more of a common interest in the life of the community, when they share a common background. which words best describe lindner's tone, based on his use of the phrase "in a certain kind of way”? disdainful and demeaning confused and indecisive warm and welcoming surprised and amazed