After story evaluation

His side, her side.

This girl and this boy were furnishing a little apartment.

The girl sat on the bed. She pushed off her shoes and lay back. She thought she could see a star.

"Come here, Jack. Try this bed. Bring one of those pillows,"

1.  What kind of details does Carver choose to describe the “place?” 

He made it seem like it was in a poorer neighborhood and that people there didn’t really communicate very well with each other.

2.  2.What do the following passages tell you about the place? 

“The girl sat on the bed. She pushed off her shoes and lay back. She thought she could see a star.”

“Lights came on in the houses up and down the street.”

That people kind of did what they want and didn’t think or care about what other people though.  It could be a city too because its hard to see stars in cities or well lit places.  And they also made them seem like they weren’t every wealthy based on the fact that they were buying abed out of the front of someone’s yard.

3.  3.Now look at the passages that you chose. How do they talk about the place? Why are they important or unimportant? 

That they didn’t care at all what other people thought, were pretty poor and didn’t have much.