1. In the story, Indian Camp, why does Ernest Hemingway make Nick seem younger and younger as the story goes on? Is it just to remind the reader that this little boy is too young to be experiencing everything (birth and death) so soon in his life, and that he doesn't fully understand any of it quite yet? Or is there another hidden explanation behind it?
2. In the story, Capital of the World, why does the boy have to die? Is it to learn a lesson, that bull fighting isn't as easy as it looks, and how fear distinguishes the matadors from the people at home who say they can bull fight? Or to exemplify how dangerous bulls can be? Or to teach the boy that he doesn't know everything and isn't as good as he thinks he is?
3. In the story, A Clean Well Lighted Place, Hemingway uses repetition of the word nothing, towards the end of the story. Why does he do that? Is it to show that the old customer has nothing more to live for? Or is it an example of irony because nothing, is in fact everything?
