Review æ E-book, or Kindle E-pub Ô Ernest Hemingway
The short story is about an ambulance corps member in Milan during World War I Although unnamed he is assumed to be Nick Adams a character Hemingway made to represent himself He has an injured knee and visits a hospital daily for rehabilitation There the machines are used to speed the healing with the doctors making much of the miraculous new technology They show pictures to the wounded of injuries like theirs healed In Another MOBI #204 by the machines but the war hardened soldiers are portrayed as skeptical and perhaps justifiably soAs the narrator wa. The short story “In Another Country” by Ernest Hemingway expresses a great deal of the author’s views on stoicism The central figures of the piece are all soldiers wounded during wartime and yet they do not lose themselves to despair Our narrator has lost his lower leg and his doctor with great resolve states that he will still be able to play football again “better than ever” in fact Our narrator never uestions the doctor’s words or speaks with any sort of negativity toward the loss of his leg he simply accepts his predicament and moves on But it is the final moments of the story that truly speak to Hemingway’s beliefs on grace under pressure Hemingway writes of a Major whose wife has recently passed He admits the difficulty of his wife’s passing but says to his compatriot “I cannot resign myself” Hemingway showed the Major as being a leader of men one who inspired those around him as it was his insistence that his friend’s grammatical errors in speaking Italian were so egregious that forced the narrator to improve himself Hemingway uses the final paragraphs of his story to show that while strong men can be affected by tragedy as the Major clearly is they cannot succumb to it without losing themselves entirely They simply cannot “resign” themselves to that fate
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In Another CountryAjor who is friends with the narrator in an angry fit tells Nick he should get married but that his hopes and dreams will always be dashed it being only a way to set one up for hurt It is later revealed that the major's wife had suddenly and unexpectedly died of pneumonia The major is depicted as far grievously wounded with a hand withered to the size of a baby's hand and Hemingway memorably describes the withered hand being manipulated by a machine which the major dismisses as a damn thing But the major seems even deeply wounded by the loss of his wife. Well written Another writer who powerfully captures a lot in eight pages I always thought the other Country in the title refers to the completely other state of mind the events that take place puts the soldiers in With his writing skill Hemingway puts readers in that state of mind in that other world For that reason I rate in highly