Read the excerpt below from the novel a tree grows in brooklyn by betty smith and answer the question that follows. francie went in trembling. she had never seen a doctor or a nurse in all of her small life. the whiteness of the uniforms, the shiny cruel instruments laid out on a napkin on a tray, the smell of antiseptics, and especially the cloudy sterilizer with its bloody red cross filled her with tongue-tied fright. what is the main conflict in this excerpt? character vs. self character vs. character character vs. nature character vs. society