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The Saw Mill Foreshadow Hemingway

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Hemingway uses natural and manufactured setting to foreshadow Nick and Marjorie 's breakup and to emphasize their incompatibility. Nick and Marjorie row across the bay when they go "suddenly from the sandy shallows to twelve feet of dark water." By saying this Hemingway is using water to foreshadow that something bad will happen in this story. The ruins of the saw mill have been deserted for ten years, and is nothing more than a broken limestone foundation. Nick sees the saw mill for what it really is, a ruin of broken limestone. Marjorie sees this old dilapidated structure as a castle. From this conversation you can foreshadow that this is Marjorie 's fairy tale. She imagines she and Nick getting married and starting a family together.
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