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From "The First Seven Years" by Bernard Malamud "I am a business man," the shoemaker abruptly said to conceal his
embarrassment, "so I will explain you right away why I talk to you. I have a girl, my daughter Miriam-she is nineteen-a very nice
girl and also so pretty that everybody looks on her when she passes by in the street. She is smart, always with a book, and I
thought to myself that a boy like you, an educated boy-I thought maybe you will be interested sometime to meet a girl like this."
He laughed a bit when he had finished and was tempted to say more but had the good sense not to.
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How does the passage contribute to the story's central Idea?