"[Berenice] smoked home-rolled cigarettes, but she carried them in a Chesterfield package, so that from the outward appearance she was smoking store Chesterfields" (McCullers, 99).
McCullers provides the reader with seemingly insignificant background information to further assert the universality of the story's theme of one's ongoing inner-struggle. The composed maturity and surety of Berenice serves to contrast with the wavering maturity and indecisiveness of Frankie, and in this way, the two characters are foil. However, Berenice also serves to magnify Frankie's self-consciousness also. In the above passage, the reader is informed of Berenice's small deception used simply to impress others. This lack of pride is mirrored in Frankie throughout the piece
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