Hemingway cut away the superfluous facts.
It takes place in Nick’s head
It’s up to the reader to interpret the story.
This story prepares the reader for reading Indian Camp
If you omit this story, then Indian Camp will start in medias res
Three shots tells us what’s on Nick’s mind
Narrative techique
3rd person narrator
Sligt of Omniscient??
Restricted to Nicks POV because we only follow him through his thoughts
Characterize Nick
Nick is described implicit (implicit characterization)
He is in love with an indian.
He is described very carefully (very minimalistic)
Nick is a closed person
Characterize the father of Nick
Describe their relationship
They seem to have a good relationship
This is a story about men without women
The two men have a hard time talking about feelings.
Comment on the ending
The feelings couldn’t be that deep, since he was awake a long time before he remembered that his heart was broken.
Themes
‘‘In the fall the war was always there, but we did not go to it anymore.’’ So begins Ernest Hemingway’s short story, ‘‘In Another Country.’’ The war he refers to is World War I; the setting is Milan, away from the scene of the fighting. The narrator describes the city he passes on his way to the hospital to receive physical rehabilitation for the leg wounds he received while at the front. Though the narrator remains unnamed, scholars generally agree the young man is Hemingway’s alter ego, Nick Adams.
At the hospital, the narrator, a young man, sits at a machine designed to aid his damaged knee. Next to him is an Italian major, a champion fencer before the war, whose hand has been wounded. The doctor shows the major a photograph of a hand that has been restored by the machine the major is using. The photo, however, does not increase the major’s confidence in the machine.
Three Milanese soldiers, the same age as the narrator, are then introduced. The four boys hang out together at a place called Cafe Cova following their therapy. As they walk through the city’s Communist quarter, they are criticized for being officers with medals. A fifth boy, who lost his nose an hour after his first battle, sometimes joins them. He wears a black handkerchief strategically placed across his face and has no medals.
One of the boys who has three medals has
lived a very long time with death and was a little detached. We were all a little detached, and there was nothing that held us together except that we met every afternoon at the hospital. Although, we walked to the Cova through the… »
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