A rattan chair with a decorator pillow
stood at the foot of the bed.
The buffed aluminum kitchen set took up
a part of the driveway. A yellow muslin cloth,
much too large, a gift, covered the
table and hung down over the sides. A potted fern was
on the table, and a few feet away from
this stood a sofa and chair and a floor lamp.
1.What
kind of details does Carver choose to describe the “place?”
He talks about cartons everywhere and
everything else is in the yard.
2.What do the following passages tell you about the place?
It was getting dark because the lights were
turning on and she could see a star.
3. Now look at the passages that you chose. How do they talk
about the place? Why are they important or unimportant? "Those people over there, they're
watching," she said.
"It's
okay," the man said. "It's my place," he said.
"Let
them watch," the girl said.
"That's
right," the man said. "They thought they'd seen everything over here.
But
They
haven't seen this, have they?"
The neighbors don’t
like him living there and watch him.
The
old guy give it to us.
and all these crappy
records. Will you look at this shit?"
It sounds like they didn’t like being there and they just
bought his stuff cheap.
