Critical Reading The questions below are based on the following selection. In the following excerpt from Anton Chekhov’s short story “Gooseberries,” a narrator describes a difficult visit he has with his brother, who spent years saving and planning for an estate that has servants and his own gooseberry bushes. In the evening when we were having tea, the cook served a plateful of gooseberries. They were not bought, they were his own gooseberries, the first ones picked since the bushes were planted . . . he put one berry in his mouth, glanced at me with the triumph of a child who has at last been given a toy he was longing for and said: “How tasty!” And he ate the gooseberries greedily, and kept repeating: “Ah, how delicious! Do taste them!” They were hard and sour . . . I saw a happy man, one whose cherished dream had so obviously come true, who had attained his goal in life, who had got what he wanted . . . Behind the door of every contented, happy man there ought to be someone standing with a little hammer and continually reminding him with a knock that there are unhappy people, that however happy he may be, life will sooner or later show him its claws, and trouble will come to him—illness, poverty, losses, and then no one will see or hear him, just as now he neither sees nor hears others. But there is no man with a hammer. The happy man lives at ease, faintly fluttered by small daily cares, like an aspen in the wind . . . What creates internal conflict within the narrator? a. the fact that he cannot tell his brother that the gooseberries are sour b. the idea that his brother has achieved happiness but he has not c. the idea that achieving happiness leads to selfishness and ignorance of reality d. the wish to see his brother more often Please select the best answer from the choices provided A B C D