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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: all the vision of what poor SHE might have made of happiness.
Blurred and blank as the whole thing often inevitably, or
mercifully, became, she could still, through crevices and crannies,
be stupefied, especially by what, in spite of all seasoning,
touched the sorest place in her consciousness, the revelation of
the golden shower flying about without a gleam of gold for herself.
It remained prodigious to the end, the money her fine friends were
able to spend to get still more, or even to complain to fine
friends of their own that they were in want. The pleasures they
proposed were equalled only by those they declined, and they made
their appointments often so expensively that she was left wondering
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