“The Contents of the Dead Man’s Pocket” Conflicts & Surprise

The name of the story is called “The Contents of the Dead Man’s Pocket”, when Tom re-entered the apartment he actually was dreaming the entire time. He struggled when Tom was on the ledge which made him freeze with fear. He was crying on the way to the other side of the ledge so that. The dream was the external conflict. The fear was the internal conflict. The evidence in the story was - "He heard the sound, felt the blow, felt himself falling forward, and his hand closed on the living-room curtains, the shards and fragments of glass showering onto the floor. And then, kneeling there on the ledge, an arm thrust into the room up to the shoulder, he began picking away the protruding slivers and great wedges of glass from the window frame, tossing them in onto the rug. At the very end evidence shows, -"Tom Benecke burst into laughter and then closed the door behind him." which was a dream.