This story was as follows-In Indian camps, Nick’s father who was doctor and Dick who came to this camp so as to collect logs got row. The reason of huffy for doctor, Dick said the log was belongs to someone after washing and checked the logs and said it was one of stolen got it. When the doctor went back to cottage, his wife sat and said what was matter, he said I was got row with Dick and said “Dick owes me a lot of money for pulling his squaw through pneumonia and I guess he wanted a row so he wouldn’t have to take it out in work.” After hearing this insist by her husband, wife was silent and said I can’t really think anyone would do a thing like that. He stood, went out on the porch, and said sorry to her. Then he walked in the heat out the gate and path into the woods. He found Nick who was son of doctor, the doctor said your mother wants you to come and see her, but Nick said I want to go with you. Nick said all right, come on. Nick said “I know where there’s black squirrels, Daddy”, his father said let’s go there.
A scene where the doctor loathed called Doc by Dick have the similarity of Aktagawa in “Haguruma”. Called Doc or teacher by someone, in one meaning raise the self-esteem, but if wanted to make a frank relationship, it was formal, exhausted. Also a doctor irritated as follows “In the cottage the doctor, sitting on the bed in his room, saw a pile of medical journals on the floor by the bureau. They were still in their wrappers unopened. It irritated him.” Besides he was called Doc, saw a pile of medical journals that wrappers unopened, he was irritated, he tend to irritated- he was difficult to treat. I’m impressed the scene after doctor’s wife said Dick wasn’t so bad, the doctor sat and said sorry at outside her window with the blinds drawn. I felt this scene have the resemblance with “killers” one man who dislike go outside talked to wall. Talked to something objects have the sadness, I felt sadness, the more that objects was inorganic.
Bibliography
Ernest Hemingway, (1958), In our time; stories by Ernest Hemingway, New York: Scribner
(北村太郎訳、1982年、『われらの時代に』(ヘミングウェイ短編集1)、荒地出版社)
