“When I abstain from sin it is more often a fear of scandal thean a private resolve to improve on the purity of my hear,”
I picked this quote because I think it relates to the American society. More often than not people change because society dictates it not because that’s what they truly feel is right. People do things more out of guilt or fear of what others think if they simply don’t do it than anything else. There is little that people actually change about themselves for themselves: to make them happy, not to keep people from gossiping about them. And people do the same when they decide to stop drinking or smoking like in the story they only do it because society tells them they should, and for that matter they only start because society tells them to.