Indholdsfortegnelse
1. Again, look at the opening paragraph. Is there anything that strikes you in particular when you read this?

2. The first conversation between N and M. Comment on it. P. 79.

3. What do we know of N and M?

4. When is the first time in the story that we explicitly know that something is wrong?

5. Nick says: "you know everything" to M. What is the point of that?

6. Nick says it is not "fun" any longer. What do you think he means?

7. Why does he not dare to look at her?

8. Why does she use the word "love", whereas he uses the word "it" to describe their relationship?

9. The ending, what do you make of that? Bill comes and what do we come to understand...?

10. Relate this story to "The Cat in the Rain".

11. Is the Iceberg theory also unfolded in this story?

12. What is the theme in this story?

13. Have can we describe the language? Hemingway has a very special language, a certain style. But how would you define it?

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Uddrag
Again, look at the opening paragraph. Is there anything that strikes you in particular when you read this?
- The opening paragraph describes what the town was like in the old days.
- set the mood for the whole story

Why do you think Hemingway begins this way?
- So, that the reader gets the information about the towns story before the story about the persons start.
- Hemmingway gives the reader the necessary information about the town, so we can make pictures inside our heads.

What tone is he trying to set?
- He sets the tone like that, so that the reader gets a feeling of a deserted town.

2. The first conversation between N and M. Comment on it. P. 79.
- They talk about how the town were in the earlier days, and they comment on the mill and how it’s not like it was before, so maybe they started dating before the town changed.