1. Internal conflict in the mother: her ambitions vs. the ambitions of her husband and son. "For herself she wanted nothing. For father and myself she was incurably ambitious" (Anderson pg 1).
2. Chickens are symbols for hardworking citizens and eggs symbolize their ambitions. "They are so much like people they mix one up in one's judgments of life" (Anderson pg 2). "Grotesques are born out of eggs as out of people" (Anderson pg 3).
3. He's saying since he's growing up on a chicken farm, he's not going to go far in life and is going to stay close to the farm, which is a nasty business. He says this about the philosophers because the chicken farm can be boring and very interesting; so there's a lot of things to think about.
4. I wanted to be a superhero, but I didn't have any superpowers. This is an external conflict: ambition to be a superhero vs lack of superpowers.
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