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Hemingway’s famous word economy is presented in such an obvious way that the reader learns most of the information about setting, tone, plot, atmosphere and so on even in the first paragraph. “A Very Short Story” by Ernest Hemingway is about the love affair of an ordinary soldier ”he” and an Italian nurse “Luz” during a war (which is probably WWI); and how they disintegrate after the war, how their relationship ends. And this paper will analyse the plot structure, characterization, setting, social environment, atmosphere, point of view, ironies and symbols in this “really” short story.
“The plot of a fictional work is a pattern of carefully selected, casually related events that contains conflict.” (Griffith, 42) Although “A Very Short Story” is really short in terms of length, it contains a richnes as to related events and conflicts. It begins with an stable situation; there is a rising action and this action’s elements are some casually related events; then speaks the climax; after this, the action begins to fall. As it is specified in the last sentence, the plot of “A Very Short Story” by E. Hemingway is suitable to be analysed with Freytag triangle.
The stable situation is that there is an untitled affair between an ordinary soldier and a nurse. The short story begins with the sentence “One hot evening in Padua they carried him up onto the roof and he could look out over the top of the town.” Again in the first paragraph, it is understood that he and the nurse, Luz, stay alone: “He and Luz could hear them below on the balcony.” So, the affair grows away from being untitled, as they are alone. He needs to be cured and “when they operated on him she prepared him for the operating table.” Then comes the information about the known “love” affair. “There were only a few patients, and they all knew about it.” It refers to the affair. “Before he went back to the front they went into the Duomo and...
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