how is the modern day example of stress in this passage different from the example from caveman times

"ten from the sea to the sand he walks,to look in the soil, but not in the box''!

Aman lives on the twelfth floor of an apartment building. every morning he takes the elevator down to the lobby and leaves the building. in the evening, he gets into the elevator, and, if there is someone else in the elevator -- or if it was raining that day -- he goes back to his floor directly. otherwise, he goes to the tenth floor and walks up two flights of stairs to his apartment.

What is the main conflict in this excerpt from “rumplestiltskin” by the brothers grimm?