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1. Tom Benecke realizes at the beginning of the story that the feeling he is experiencing is not heat. What is it instead?

At the start of the story, Tom Benecke comments aloud to himself that it is hot inside the room in which he sits working at his desk. By the end of the first paragraph, however, he has realized that his flushed feeling is likely emanating from his "guilty conscience" (1).

2. To what aspect of his life does Tom Benecke link his "guilty conscience" (1) at the start of the story?

By the end of the first paragraph of the story, Tom Benecke reveals to himself, and to the reader, that he is not actually too hot due to the temperature of the room. Instead, he is feeling flushed or warm due to feelings of guilt. His guilt is associated with the fact that he is not accompanying his wife to the movies for the evening, and is instead staying home to write up his proposal for a new method of grocery display.

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