The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.
My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.
Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North
Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.
New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.
I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.