Nadine Gordimer meshes numerous cases of portending into "Quite a long time ago." The casing story presents the idea of dread. The possibility of the underground mining burrows that stone the storyteller's home—dull, imperceptible, and enigmatic—hint the ethnic turmoil that stones the social texture of the rural group in the sleep time story.
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The imagery that Poe uses to help you hear, see, smell, and feel the sensations of being buried alive is like I could feel myself gasping for air as he described this scene to me. I could see myself in the middle of tons of dirt, smelling the dust. I could hear the dirt getting piled on top of me.
The significance is that he wasn't willing to let go of his chances of trying again. "They dragged Robert out the door, knees stiff, feet dragging."
