hemingway 2
Hemingway's "In Another Country" is the story about the wounded soldiers who are puled back from the front lines due to injuries. The setting of the story is a military hospital in Milan, Italy, during the war. Although author does not specifically give the time we can say that he refers to the World War I because this short story was published in the book "Men Without Women" in 1927; it was another book of short stories which collected "The Killers," "In Another Country," and others. In the story we can see two main and few secondary characters. The two main characters are an American soldier, at the same time the narrator, and the major. The secondary characters are the boys, similar in age as narrator, and the doctor. Throughout interaction and conversation between characters, and through good selection of setting, author successfully passes the message and the theme of the story to readers. In my opinion the major theme of the story is loss and different ways of confronting it. At the same time loss is one of the things that all characters in the story share, it is something that connects them, makes them similar, and keeps them coming to the hospital every afternoon. Another theme that comes out in the story is the discrimina
After making a phone-call, from which he learned about death of his wife, he came to the American and apologized for being rude. At this point the American realized what the major was thinking when he said that he is against marriage. Furthermore the doctor provided an American with more information about major and his wife, about her illness and their marriage. Afterwards major didn't come to the hospital for a few days, however when he returned he wasn't the same person. Although the main characters played an important role to the story, I think we shouldn't neglect the secondary ones who maybe didn't change the things drastically, but offered a lot in building the story and understanding the main points of it. So one of the secondary characters is the doctor of the hospital who was in everyday contact with the patients, and was their hope, the man who supported them psychologically by giving them courage about the rout of their health. We see from the text that the doctor knew about the major's wife and her illness, and we guess that he knew a lot of his patient's lives and with an everyday interaction became a kind of their friend. Besides the doctor there are also the boys, who were similar in age and medals, to the narrator, an American. "They were all three from Milan, and one of them was to be a lawyer, and one was to be a painter, and one had intended to be a soldier" (268). They were the ones with whom an American was sometimes going to the Cafe Cova after the treatment in the hospital. There they were more similar then in the hospital because they had some similar experiences that people in Cafe, w
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Approximate Word count = 1091
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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