“A canary for one”
This is the story two man who longed for Paris so as to set up separate residences came across in the compartment the American lady who are deaf and have a canary bought in Palermo for one. The American lady talked about like American man become make the best husbands, and she have the curious ability, terrific presentiments about things sometimes.
In Hemingway’s story the animals went out in the story’s for example, the trout and the grasshopper in “Big two-hearted river”, also this story a canary appeared, and that depiction was lovely-“The canary chirped and the feathers on his throat stood out, then he dropped his bill and pecked into his feathers again.”
I’m impressed the scene when the American lady talked a wife “I thought you were English” because she wore braces, a wife reacted as follows-“I had started to say suspenders and changed it to braces in the mouth, to keep my English character.”
“Now I lay me”
I summarize this stories as follows-A tenente didn’t want to sleep because he had been living for a long time with the knowledge that if he ever shut his eyes in the dark and let himself go, his soul would go out of his body, so did occupying himself while he lay awake-in one time it’s about fishing, insects, the memory with his family…. Not only he, also one other person in the room and he was awake, who was orderly for a tenente and spoke about the goodness of marry, also recommended a tenente get marry.
When they lay awake, they only listened to the silk-worms eating, it’s a good expression to express the silence. The impressive scene was also about animal when the times a tenente did occupying himself he imaged a salamander so as to hook to the logs, but it’s difficult because he was very small, neat and agile and had tiny feet that tried to hold on to the hook, and after that one time he never used a salamander.
Bibliography
Ernest Hemingway, (1955), Men without women, New York: Scribner
(鮎川信夫訳、1982年、『女のいない男たち』(ヘミングウェイ短編集2)、荒地出版社)
