31 pages • 1 hour read
Ernest HemingwayA modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
The narrator describes symbolically festive sights to differentiate Milan from the squalor of the front lines. These combine to lend a peaceful holiday mood to the city as a respite from the fighting. Electric lights come on to illuminate the shop windows. Butchers display fine game such as foxes and deer, “with snow powdered on the fur” (270). A woman sells roasted chestnuts on one of the bridges across a canal. The hospital is described as “very beautiful” and remodeled with new pavilions made of brick.
Midway through the story, more of these images are sprinkled into the narrative, as when the Café Cova is described as “rich and warm and not too brightly lighted” (269), while “patriotic” girls join the men at their tables. The effect makes the town seem like heaven, which is fitting because a kind of Judgment Day unfolds as the story sorts the soldiers into different types based on their war behavior and suffering.
The rehabilitation machines are symbols of society’s effort to atone for the injuries the soldiers received fighting in defense of their homeland. The photos of successful previous patients are theatrical props for encouraging the patients to continue the treatments energetically.
By Ernest Hemingway
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
Ernest Hemingway
Across the River and into the Trees
Across the River and into the Trees
Ernest Hemingway
A Day's Wait
A Day's Wait
Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway
A Moveable Feast
A Moveable Feast
Ernest Hemingway
A Very Short Story
A Very Short Story
Ernest Hemingway
Big Two-Hearted River
Big Two-Hearted River
Ernest Hemingway
Cat in the Rain
Cat in the Rain
Ernest Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway
Green Hills of Africa
Green Hills of Africa
Ernest Hemingway
Hills Like White Elephants
Hills Like White Elephants
Ernest Hemingway
Indian Camp
Indian Camp
Ernest Hemingway
In Our Time
In Our Time
Ernest Hemingway
Old Man at the Bridge
Old Man at the Bridge
Ernest Hemingway
Soldier's Home
Soldier's Home
Ernest Hemingway
Solider's Home
Solider's Home
Ernest Hemingway
Ten Indians
Ten Indians
Ernest Hemingway
The Garden of Eden
The Garden of Eden
Ernest Hemingway
The Killers
The Killers
Ernest Hemingway
The Nick Adams Stories
The Nick Adams Stories
Ernest Hemingway