On The Sidewalk Bleeding Symbolism

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The short story ‘On the Sidewalk Bleeding’ is intricate and complex, with many layers and descriptive features that makes the setting easy to visualize and interpret. To begin, in the beginning of the short, the author wrote the passage, “It was 11:13pm…” which sets the events at night; and exactly ten minutes before the protagonist, Andy, was stabbed, that was described in the passage: “He had been stabbed ten minutes ago.” Furthermore, the location is an alley, near a street which is busy with automobile traffic; the sounds of the tires sloshing through the puddles of water telling that the street was close to Andy. The passage, “He could hear the sound of automobile tires hushed on the rain swept streets…” describes that he’s close enough

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