In this part, author gave some examples around his or her life. It seemed that everyone in our life tried to show off. These examples exposed everyone’s desire---gained others’ recognition.
In the first paragraph, there were only two sentences. I couldn’t understand the first sentence. So I analyzed its structure. The subject was “woman”, and the predicate was “is criticizing”. And the phrase that[which] was “with blazing eyes and a throbbing voice” was attributing. That “over at the far end of the living room” was adverbial modifier. Now[So], I can[could] understand the sentence easily.
The second sentence in the third paragraph was very special and hard to understand. At the beginning, I thought the “sips” was a noun, so I couldn’t understand why author used “then” in this sentence. There should be another verb. This sentence only had a verb----sip----besides “push away”. If I deleted the phrase that[which] was “in wine meditatively”, the sentence looked clear[clearly]. And in this paragraph author said that a man used” angst”,”Kierkegaard” and “epistemology”. That meant the man used some sophisticated words to show off his intelligence.
The author used many nice phrases. Such as “at the far end of”, “push away”, “show off”. So in this part, I could see the author used language exactly.
