The summary was as follows-In a lumbering town that had mill before ten years ago, couple Nick and Marjorie did rowing so as to troll rainbow trout. After trolling they pulled the boat high up the beach and talked about love with fire. After Nick said love wasn’t fun, Marjorie left and Nick lay. And where Nick lay Bill came and ask him “Have a scene” and “How do you feel?” Nick said Bill go away and selected a sandwich from the lunch basket, walked over to have a look at the rods.
After read, instantly I had the question who was Bill because he appeared suddenly. I guessed out of this story, Nick took promise with friends Bill come where Nick was when the ends of Nick and Marjorie talked about love and wanted to console.
I felt sad atmosphere to expressions in the delicate relationship with Nick and Marjorie, for example the expressions as follows- “They sat on the blanket without touching each other and watched the moon rise.” “They ate without talking, and watched the two rods and the fire-light in the water.”-I found the common point that was watched objects which move rarely and have the distance around man. I was overcome the expression-“As the trout’s back came up out of the water the minnows jumped wildly. They sprinkled the surface like a handful of shot thrown into the water.”
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)
