The short story "The Wall" by Jean-Paul Sartre, is a story told in the first-person stream of
             consciousness. The main character in the story is a political prisoner. The character's name is
             Pablo, and he is being held, along with three other prisoners, during the Spanish Civil War. The
             prisoners are imprisoned in a hospital that is being used by the Spanish Fascists. The story is a
             reflection of, Jean-Paul Sartre's philosophical beliefs in existentialism. Evidence of Sartre's,
             beliefs can be found in his use of setting, character, theme, literary devices. Sartre was an
             exponent of atheistic existentialism: "Existence is prior to essence. Man is nothing at birth and
             throughout his life, he is no more than the sum of his past commitments. To believe in anything
             outside his own will is to be guilty of 'bad Faith.' Existentialist despair and anguish is the
             acknowledgment that man is condemned to freedom. There is no God, so man must rely upon his
             own fallible will and moral insight. He cannot escape choosing."
             The setting in the story is a prison cell containing two other men, Tom and Juan. The cell is
             a dark cold place. "As a matter of fact, our cell was one of the hospital cellars. It was terrifically
             cold there because of the drafts. We shivered all night and it wasn't much better during the
             day...'There was a bench in the cellar and four mats. When they took us back we sat and waited in silence." The setting is significant to the existentialist view, because Sartre believed that humans were "condemned to freedom", and by using a cell, Sartre could be representing the world, in which he, believes is reality. The idea of prison is often linked to being a place of confinement, and to be imprisoned is to be locked away from freedom. Based on Sartre's beliefs, "Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does." The setting is a metaphor for...