The Veteran

Question

by Stephen Crane

“There’s Sickles’s colt over in the medder, Jimmie,” said the old man. “Don’t you wish you owned one like him?”

“Um,” said the boy, with a strange lack of interest. He continued his reflections. Then finally he ventured: “Grandpa—now—was that true what you was telling those men?”

“What?” asked the grandfather. “What was I telling them?”

“Oh, about your running.”

“Why, yes, that was true enough, Jimmie. It was my first fight, and there was an awful lot of noise, you know.”

Jimmie seemed dazed that this idol, of its own will, should so totter. His stout boyish idealism was injured.

Presently the grandfather said: “Sickles’s colt is going for a drink. Don’t you wish you owned Sickles’s colt, Jimmie?”

The boy merely answered: “He ain’t as nice as our’n.” He lapsed then into another moody silence.

"The Veteran" by Stephen Crane

Question
Use the passage to answer the question.

What main conflict of the plot is discussed in this passage?

(1 point)
Responses

Jimmie thinks his grandfather is lying to him.
Jimmie thinks his grandfather is lying to him.

Jimmie is not interested in owning Sickles’s colt.
Jimmie is not interested in owning Sickles’s colt.

Jimmie is upset that his grandfather ran off during a battle.
Jimmie is upset that his grandfather ran off during a battle.

Jimmie is becoming moody and noncommunicative.

Answer 1

The main conflict of the plot discussed in this passage is best reflected by the response:

Jimmie thinks his grandfather is lying to him.

This conflict is highlighted by Jimmie's sense of disillusionment as he grapples with the reality of his grandfather's past and the stories he tells.