A good nights sleep
A Good Night's Sleep by Brian McCabeI have just read the text A Good Night's Sleep by Brian McCabe, and will now in the following couple of pages, give you, the reader, a summary of the story (A) and then go into an essay about some of the finer points of the story (B).Lockhart is lying in bed fighting his archenemy, his insomnia. When he hears a soft bumping against his flat door, which doesn't stop he gets up and goes out to investigate, opening the door he finds a young homeless girl lying on his doormat. Lockhart and the girl start talking and Lockhart finds out that she is homeless. Lockhart re-enters, because the girl asked him for a cigarette, when inside, he thinks trough his options, should he, just lock the door behind him? Offer her his son's room? Or call the police and have them take care of her?He goes back out, gives her a cigarette and offers her his son's room, but she replies, "No way" and, "I've heard that one before", she thinks that he is going to ... do something. There he looses his patience and leaves her, and goes back to bed.In bed Lockhart rethinks his actions and climes back out of bed to talk sense into her, but then he hears voices outside, its his neigh
He mentions pollution, unemployment, race relations and drugs as subjects Lockhart's first year students have discussed, and of course Lockart has an ex-wife and not just a wife, which also is more and more common in modern time; this last one is rather subtle but at the same time insistent. Brian McCabe does this trough an ordinary guy who lives in one of these larger cities I referred to earlier. She used to stay at a hostel but they don't let her in anymore, the reason for this is not clear, but since then she has slept in stairs, and apparently on doormats. Then there is the girl; she's a young girl but she has already lived on the streets for some time now, she has probably run away from home. Edinburgh, Scotland is the larger city, in which this story takes place; more precisely the story takes place in Lockhart's bed in his flat in Edinburgh, and right outside his flat door. Throughout the story she is scornful and hostile. This is not much of an environment to make a conclusion. He steps out and catches the neighbour entering his flat, he tells him that he just told her to go to hell. The fact that Lockhart is a teacher just strengthens this allegation. In A Good Night's Sleep George Lockhart is this guy. A Good Night's Sleep - the essayA Good Night's Sleep was written by Brian McCabe and appeared for the first time in 'In a Dark Room with a Stranger'.
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