I used to up late when I was young

What point is the author trying to make by comparing the travel times of the first transcontinental railroad and the first transcontinental flight?

What does water came out from a rock mean in this poem and why is it compared to the radio waltz? time was away and somewhere else. the waiter did not come, the clock forgot them and the radio waltz came out like water from a rock: time was away and somewhere else.

How can the reader of a story use the setting of a story to learn more about a charactor