"When they get started, they don't leave a guy nothing."

  Writing the summary paper for this story was quite hard.  Hemmingway's style of writing is quite difficult to comprehend.  Because I couldn't fully understand what went on in the story, I didn't like it.  I read it so many times and still didn't get it.  Mr. Lovas said that everytime there was an a pause of conversation between two characters, it was significant.  I caught all the pauses, but I had NO idea what it symbolized or why it was significant.  Back to why I chose this quote.  I believe it means that once a person gets caught up in doing something whether it was good or bad, there will be bad consequences.  That person will be left nothing.