The doctor and the doctor’s wife
The doctor and the doctor’s wife
‘’The doctor and the doctor’s wife’’ is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway. It got published in 1925 and is a part of a short story collection called ‘’In Our Time’’. Hemingway is well-known for his style of written and for using the iceberg-principle which lets the readers guess the truth behind the stories.
Nick’s father has hired three Indians to remove some logs that have been dumped on his property. Nick’s father Henry gets in a discussion with Dick Boulton, who is one of the three hired Indians who are a half-breed and speak English. Boulton accuse Henry of stealing the logs. Henry gets angry and leaves in anger to his cottage. He then tells his wife about the discussion and assumes that Boulton got into the discussion because Henry saved his wife from pneumonia so now he owes him a lot of money. Therefore Dick and his son Eddy and Billy Tabeshaw made him angry so they didn’t use up the favor. But his wife doubted that anyone would do that. He then goes outside and see his son Nick whom he tells to go see his mother, but Nick wants to go with his father instead so Henry takes him with him.
The story is written in 3rd person objective narrator which gives the effect of a narrator who is not involved in the story, but is only experiencing the things in the story and not giving any information’s about the other persons in the story’s thoughts and feelings. The story takes place in 15th century and on Nick’s father Henry’s property which is located in the woods. The property is facing a lake. There are a lot of themes in this story like culture clash and father and son relationship.
The main person in this story is Nick’s father, Henry. Henry is the doctor who is also mentioned in the story ‘’Indian camp’’ and who performed a cesarean surgery on a pregnant Indian women without anesthetics. At ‘’Indian camp’’ Henry brings his son along with him. When Dick Boulton, one of the Indians jokes the doctor about him
‘’The doctor and the doctor’s wife’’ is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway. It got published in 1925 and is a part of a short story collection called ‘’In Our Time’’. Hemingway is well-known for his style of written and for using the iceberg-principle which lets the readers guess the truth behind the stories.
Nick’s father has hired three Indians to remove some logs that have been dumped on his property. Nick’s father Henry gets in a discussion with Dick Boulton, who is one of the three hired Indians who are a half-breed and speak English. Boulton accuse Henry of stealing the logs. Henry gets angry and leaves in anger to his cottage. He then tells his wife about the discussion and assumes that Boulton got into the discussion because Henry saved his wife from pneumonia so now he owes him a lot of money. Therefore Dick and his son Eddy and Billy Tabeshaw made him angry so they didn’t use up the favor. But his wife doubted that anyone would do that. He then goes outside and see his son Nick whom he tells to go see his mother, but Nick wants to go with his father instead so Henry takes him with him.
The story is written in 3rd person objective narrator which gives the effect of a narrator who is not involved in the story, but is only experiencing the things in the story and not giving any information’s about the other persons in the story’s thoughts and feelings. The story takes place in 15th century and on Nick’s father Henry’s property which is located in the woods. The property is facing a lake. There are a lot of themes in this story like culture clash and father and son relationship.
The main person in this story is Nick’s father, Henry. Henry is the doctor who is also mentioned in the story ‘’Indian camp’’ and who performed a cesarean surgery on a pregnant Indian women without anesthetics. At ‘’Indian camp’’ Henry brings his son along with him. When Dick Boulton, one of the Indians jokes the doctor about him