Before the dialogue begins, there is a brief description of the setting. Hemingway sets the scene through the narrator. Straightforward narrator helps the readers to visualize how the story takes place in their own imagination. The story begins and ends in the same train station. It reveals that the characters wander and hesitate on the same situation. The characters’ whereabouts remain unknown. The two-rail lines, which go to Barcelona and back to Madrid, indicate the future and the past paths. Readers have to put themselves into words to understand the hidden meanings of the two contrasting sight surrounded the train station. On one side, the dessert-like landscape, which has “no shade and no trees”, implies that the characters’ lives now
