September+26+-+Ernest+Hemingway

Th 9/26: Ernest Hemingway, selections from In Our Time (1925): "On the Quai at Smyrna" (pg. 11-12), Chapter I (pg. 13), "Indian Camp" (pg. 15-19), Chapter II (pg. 21), "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife" (pg. 23-27), Chapter III (pg. 29), "The End of Something" (pg. 31-35), Chapter VI (pg. 63), "A Very Short Story" (pg. 65-66), Chapter VII (pg. 67), "Soldier's Home" (pg. 69-77), Chapter IX (pg. 83), "Mr. and Mrs. Elliot" (pg. 85-88), Chapter X (pg. 89), "Cat in the Rain" (pg. 91-94), Chapter XIII (pg. 113), "My Old Man" (pg. 115-129) **→Response Papers:** Group 3 (2/4)


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 Putting yourself in the soldier's shoes in chapter VII, would you have turned to some religious figure for help? Since chapter VII leads into "Soldier's Home," how do you think that faith or a lack of faith affects Krebs' life?



Neville, Response Question 2: Why do you think Nick expresses sympathy such a young age, since he does not fully understand what is going on around him?

While reading "Soldier's Home" did you feel like Krebs was steady trying to live in a fantasy world? For example, he keeps trying to keep his life from being complicated and he mentions how he wanted his life to go smoothly. Don't you think he is having a hard time facing the realities of life?

Hemingway had a notoriously tumultuous personal life, particularly when it came to his marriages. How do you think that these personal issues influenced this collection of stories? What stories in particular appear to be based, to any degree, on Hemingway's reality?



In what other ways do you think the constant reminder of mortality affects the relationships we have with other people?  In the selection "Indian Camp" why do you think Hemingway flip the experience of childbirth into more of masculine experience for Nick's father? Was the baby's father suicide used to represent a sense of weakness?