Neruromancer: Part 1

William Gibson starts off this novel with the main character, Case, being a bar in Chiba. This bar is described as dark and it seems like illegal activities are going on in there because of the prostitutes that Case talks to in there. Then Case goes to the Jarre de The, which is described to walled in with many mirrors. Then Case goes into Night City which seems like the time of day when dangerous things happen. The black market occurs in Night City. The Night City happens in Ninsei. This is a town with massage parlors, coffee shops, and arcades. This was a place was somewhat of a historical park. Then Case leaves and goes to visit Julius Deane in his office. He describes seeing a lamp, cabinets, and other sorts of furniture pieces. Case also visits the Cheap Hotel, and he stayed there instead of his own place. This city in itself seems to be very depressing by the way Case describes the clouds and the gray sky that over looks it.
All the places that Case describe seem to be very dark, gloomy, and sometimes dirty. He describes the settings of cyberspace as dangerous places where illegal transactions are usually taking place. In the cyberspace world it seems like everything is fast paced and many things are going on all the time. When Case is in the "matrix" it is difficult to sense what is taking place. Case likes the cyberspace world because he says that he wishes for it everyday.
When Case is in external places, it is still described to be very dark, but you can sense what is happening because things are are normal pace. Case seems very depressed in this external world because he hopes for cyberspace and when things that seem to remind him of the matrix, life being tailed, he gets aroused and excited. This shows that the external places compared to cyberspace are less exciting and do no give Case what he wants out of life.