Sleeping By Katharine Weber 2003 PART 1. A: Why is Mr. Winter's and Harriet's interaction at swim club significant to the story's plot? A. Mr. Winter knows Harriet to be mature for her age, so he asks Harriet to take the unusual babysitting job to calm his wife's concerns. B. Mr. Winter asks her to babysit even though she has never seen him before, implying that he doesn't care who babysits Charles and that he is a neglectful father. C. Harriet suspects that Mr. Winter only approached her to babysit because of her age and because she's a girl; this awareness is one of the first steps towards her growing up. D. Mr. Winter asks her to babysit even though she has never seen him before; this unusual approach is a clue that something is off concerning the Winter family.