“. . their publication was senseless. the book is an indeterminate heap of contradictory drafts. i examined it once: in the third chapter the hero dies, in the fourth he is alive . .”

considering its prefix, syntax, and context, what does indeterminate mean in this excerpt from “the garden of forking paths”?

imposing
inconclusive
messy
overwhelming

It tell the child’s point of view

Both men foresaw the us as a great future power. however, they differed on the path the nation was to follow in achieving this role. while jefferson preferred an agrarian nation, hamilton favored an industrial and business intensive nation. as such, jefferson detested hamilton's idea of a strong federal government. jefferson wanted the bulk of power to rest with the states. these major views were behind polarizing washington's cabinet into two distinct factions. hamilton's followers became known as federalists and jefferson's democratic-republicans.