Read the following passage from “Through the Tunnel.” That day and the next, Jerry exercised his lungs as if everything, the whole of his life, all that he would become, depended upon it. Again his nose bled at night, and his mother insisted on his coming with her the next day. It was a torment to him to waste a day of his careful self-training, but he stayed with her on the other beach, which now seemed a place for small children, a place where his mother might lie safe in the sun. It was not his beach. Which sentence accurately describes the conflict in this passage? A. Jerry is desperate to prove that he is no longer a child. B. Jerry's mother is happy when he stays with her on the beach. C. Jerry is an excellent swimmer and wants to prove that to his mother. D. none of the above