I read “The light of the world” and “Fathers and Sons” by Earnest Hemingway

“The light of the world”

This story treated the famous boxer, Steve Ketchel: In the station during waiting the train two men I and Tom met many people, and among two in this people, one was whores and so big, another was just ordinary looking whores, peroxide blondes, this two women was talking Steve Ketchel-they talked as follows: the peroxide blondes said “He was more than any husband could ever be”, the big one declared he said “You’re a lovely piece.”…and the argue continued about Steve Ketchel for whether it’s lie or not about saying them, and how they love Steve Ketchel. This story ended when the big one said she was said pretty by Steve Kechel but if I and Tom looked her she was as big as three women.

Hemingway’s other stories like “The killer” and “The battler”, this story also treated fighter. After reading, it’s interesting to watch the fight Jack Johnson with Stanley Ketchel.

 

“Fathers and Sons”

This story, as it can know from the title, the theme was each sons have each fathers: Nick’s son said to Nick I’ll bet your father, my grandfather wasn’t better than you, but Nick responded “Oh, yes he was. He shot very quickly and beautifully…he was always very disappointed in the way I shot.”.

I was impressed the scene Nick remembered the way of hunting the quail taught by his father cause it’s have so detail as follows: “In shooting quail you must not get between them and their habitual cover, once the dogs have found them, or when they flush they will come pouring at you, some rising steep, some skimming by your ears, whirring into a size you have never seen them in the air as they pass, the only way being to turn and take them over your shoulder as they go, before they set their wings and angle down into the thicket.".

 

Bibliography

Ernest Hemingway, (1972), “The Nick Adams stories”, New York: Scribner

(谷口睦男他訳、『ヘミングウェイ全集1』、三笠書房、1973年)