Question

There was terror in his voice, the same fear she'd heard in the Dominican Republic before they left. They had been watched there; he was followed. They could not talk, of course, though they had whispered to each other in fear at night in the dark bed. . . . He went back to those awful days and long nights, and his wife's screams confirmed his secret fear: they had not gotten away after all; the SIM had come for them at last. –“Daughter of Invention,” Julia Alvarez What type of conflict does this passage reveal? conflict with self conflict with others conflict with society conflict with nature

Answer 1

the answer is conflict with society I did the work and got it right

Answer 2

Alvarez describes people lost between two worlds by means of transculture. The author describes it in the lights of her own experience both in Dominican Republic and the United States and shares the difficulty of her people's adaptation when their past haunts them.

The excerpts describes this horrific past of dictator Trujilo's chase and his secret police, SIM. It is an expression of a conflict with an unbearable society. The correct option is a conflict with society.