The story is about a man falls in love with a nurse during wartime. He has to say goodbye for her for a while to build good promising life when they get married. However, his love is not faithful; she finds new love and wrote a letter explaining her reasons and gives him her seiner wishes. The story is a typical short love tail occurred during war. Personally I did not like it, I think it represents many of us who are victims of their circumstances and fragile personality.
Perhaps many people seek affection during hard times, and I think he has no option rather than falling in love with her during his service in the front line. But I couldn’t understand why he destroyed his life in the end. It was very short story written beautifully and ends badly. Hemingway did not take or mislead his readers to any side. Therefore, I guess as readers we are free to come up with our own analysis and judgments.
An interesting post, Sabha!
ReplyDeleteI'm curious about this sentence: "Perhaps many people seek affection during hard times, and I think he has no option rather than falling in love with her during his service in the front line."
Does it mean "Perhaps many people seek affection during hard times, and I think he has no option but to fall in love with her during his break from his service at the front"?
Actually I want to say " normally people seek affection during hard times, and as a result he was in love with her during his service in the front.
ReplyDeleteAh, nicely cleared up! Thanks!
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