Ernest Hemingway

The first two paragraphs of Ernest Hemingway’s In Another Country serve as an interesting introduction to this short story. Hemingway’s simple style of writing is shown here, where the audience is never told exactly what is going on, but are rather left to make their own inferences. In the first line of the story we are told about a war, Hemingway does not say which war it is, but by stating the fact …

…story because through Hemingway’s simple style and his technique of ‘leaving much unsaid’ the reader’s attention is grabbed and kept till the end of the story. Hemingway gives certain clues such as the fact that there is a war, and the fact that it is cold and these people have to meet everyday at the hospital. This style of writing then forcest he reader to figure out certain aspects from the clues given.