The Colonel Summary And Analysis

The Colonel made the conversation, in the Second chapter, with the surgeon who was his old friend giving him medical fitness for the shoot. During his way from Trieste to Venice, along the road from Monfalcone to Latisana, he crossed Tagliamento, ‘green along the banks and men were fishing along the far shore where it ran deep’ (p.12), San Dona di Piave, Traviso, Fossalta, Noghera,
Torcello, Burano (island), Murano (island), Mestre, comparing past and present as a reel, the life includes childhood appreciation as William Wordsworth (1770-1850) commemorates the stage in his poetry. On his way, he crossed many good rivers namely the Rapido, Dese, Sile, and Piave, canals like Sile, the Grand Canal, coast called Carole, the Veneto plain,
The social developments and progress observed at different places with the passing of time are once again noticeable; here aesthetic travels along the hero in revising beauty of the places at different ages with a marked change:
The war damages are now quite improvised, and at present the Colonel is trying to have lesson from the damages:
Having lessons from war destructions his experiences in his thoughtfulness are exploring:
Though the places are improved but the signs of destruction are yet traceable; changes can be noticed but war cannot be forgotten; impressions persist and prolong. If his present is hard experience, his past is romance.

He is recalling of the war and destruction done by that when he is passing through the same places again after thirty years. War impressions imprint grave on his mind. His reminiscence becomes all the more gloomy: Ghastly remembering, the dead were difficult to be buried near “the Italian side of the river”
Hemingway’s fictive is not the romance of a young man for a young woman. It fibered as the love of an old military Colonel who was quite ambitious man to have further military position but failed; who had his wife, a journalist; she had also left him. He is not even having any child up to the age of fifty. He, as a victim of war, a depressed man who loves Donna Renata, a young girl below nineteen years, revisits. She is an ordinary girl in intelligence but beautiful in looks; it was not the second or third but his fourth sweetest and last love:
The colonel feels so moved by her styles that he finds himself plumaged: Both love each other in their true sense. Their style of romance is according to their age and their professions—as he is a military official and she is a student only, yet committed in love: Both, experience and innocence have knowledge of Spanish, French, and English—romance languages derived from Latin-- but the Colonel had the knowledge of Austrian, American, and German languages also. Girl is soft and gentle in behavior while Richard is hard due to his war traits but always tried to be nice to the girl. Both have honesty in love for each other to converse and to