Portrait of a Place Short Story

1. 1.What kind of details does Carver choose to describe the “place?” 
   He gets very descriptive at each introduction to a piece of furniture or item. He manages to explore finer detail when is comes to location of certain things. Craver also uses the people to help better describe the environment in which they perform actions.
2. 2.What do the following passages tell you about the place? 
   This following passage tells me that she is outside with the furniture that the man put in his front yard. The girl ultimately thinks that all the furnishings are for sale considering the man placed them all outside even though he had no intention to sell them.
   “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.”
   
3. 3.Now look at the passages that you chose. How do they talk about the place? Why are they important or unimportant? 
   "It must be a yard sale," the girl said to the boy. 
    This girl and this boy were furnishing a little apartment. 
    "Let's see what they want for the bed," the girl said. 
    "And for the TV," the boy said. 
    The boy pulled into the driveway and stopped in front of the kitchen table.
   
   
   This passage reflects on the place as what the couple sees it as, which is a yard sale out front of someone's house. They both inferred from previous sights an experiences in their life that the furnishings outside are for sale. This is important to the story because it makes me wonder how the man was going to respond to people touching and using his furnishings without any consent.