1. ""Often he reached out for the best without knowing why he wanted it – and sometimes he ran up against the mysterious denials and prohibitions in which life indulges."" Why is this line significant? Is this about denial as the narrator suggests? What is denied?

He wants to have his children to have more money and be even more comfortable.

The denial is in his own mind and he feels like he was not given something he should have been.

no the answer is c only objects touching the earth's surface can be acted upon by an outside force

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