A Good Night's Sleep by Brian McCabe
             I 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).
             A Good Night's Sleep – the summary
             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 neighbours talking to the girl. He steps out and catches the neighbour entering his flat, he tells him that he just told her to go to hell. But back in his bed he hears a soft bumping ... again.
             A Good Night's Sleep – the essay
             A Good Night's Sleep was written by Brian McCabe and appeared for the first time in 'In a Dark Room with a Stranger'. It is a story written to inform or remind the reader of the very serious problem in all larger cities – namely homelessness. Brian McCabe does this trough an ordinary guy who lives in one of these larger cities I referred to earlier.
             In A Good Night's Sleep George L...