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…showed last 75 words of 1041 total…where the reader can relax and get to know the characters. Thus, readers may feel alienated due to this and the pace of the story. In the end of the story the girl wises up to the fact that the talking is getting them nowhere and she asks him to stop. To relieve the tension the man leaves, providing Hemingway with a point in which loneliness is rewarded as a virtue instead of a hindrance.