Disdain. A noun defined as “a feeling of contempt for someone or something regarded as unworthy or inferior” by Merriam-Webster dictionary. In the short story The Ride by JL Williams. It talks about the situations that come up on a daily basis on MTA public transportation. He goes from describing a young woman wearing clothes way too small for her body to a crackhead high off of drugs. But in this certain excerpt he dealt with a black woman with a baby carriage trying to get on the train. But she was being extremely disrespectful to one of the passengers. The author included the lines “… irritants that they feel the need to convey their disdain for a while we share a confined space for a limited time. JL Williams is basically saying how some people on the train are on a mission to make you despise them, acting outrageous is second nature to them.
