Most Vivid Images

• The first main image from chapters 9-15 of "The Scarlet Letter" is when Roger reveals the "A" on Arthur's chest. They had just had a very long hypothetical conversation about sin, and Roger noticed how Arthur was constantly holding his chest. After Arthur fell into a deep sleep, Roger lifted his shift to reveal the letter A, in the same place of Hester's.
• Another main image from these chapters is when Roger, Hester, and Pearl are all up on the scaffold holding hands. This is the first time they are all together, being able to show their real identities.
• The third image I can see from these chapters is how Hester has changed so significantly. Hester has lost her entire feminine features. She constantly cuts her hair back, she doesn't wear makeup, and she is falling apart. The ironic thing is that this was supposed to be the job of the scarlet letter, but it isn't. She has chose to life this life by helping the needy in her society and rebuilding her reputation.

Most Vivid Images: Chapters 9-15

1. The first image I come across that seems especially vivid is when Dimmesdale and Chillingworth are having their discussion regarding morals and they sight Hester and Pearl in the graveyard in chapter 10. Dimmesdale is standing at his window after the argument when he hears a familiar laugh coming from the graveyard. Dimmesdale at once recognizes that this is Pearl. She was described as having a look of wild joy at being there. She then threw burrs at Hester's scarlet letter, which stuck. The men then begin talking about Pearl, Chillingworth saying she is an evil child, Dimmesdale saying she could be capable of good nature. Pearl then saw the men, and told Hester they needed to leave before the black man got them like he did the Dimmesdale. This is a vivid image to me because it begins showing that Dimmesdale has a connection with Pearl and Hester. It also shows, through Pearl's viewpoint, that Chillingworth is really an evil man, not the kind, old man that he makes himself out to be.
2. The second image I believe is extremely vivd is that of when Chillingworth uncovers what Dimmesdale is hiding on his chest in chapter 10. The same afternoon as the argument over morals, Dimmesdale and Chillingworth go to their respective parts of the house. Dimmesdale begins reading a large book that causes him to fall asleep. Although he is normally a very light sleeper, he was deeply asleep and barely moved. Chillingworth then takes the opportunity to find out what is ailing Dimmesdale because he has never found out in the many years he has been Dimmesdale's doctor. Chillingworth sneaks into Dimmesdale's room, and very easily, moves his shirt away from his chest. The book does not say what he found, but it was enough to make him dance around in joy. This is a vivid image to me because it is the proof that Chillingworth is trying to destroy Dimmesdale for a reason unknown to anyone but him at the time.

My Answer to the Question

• In chapter eleven, Dimmesdale is so full of despair and confliction that he tortures himself with a whip. The book says he is "laughing bitterly at himself the while and smiting so much the more pitilessly because of that bitter laugh." In addition, and although fasting was custom for Puritans, Dimmesdale would fast for long, unhealthy periods of time, until his knees trembled. This scene is very vivid to me; I can picture what a man would look like if he physically beat himself. Hawthorne is excellent at forming a picture into the reader's mind. I can feel Dimmesdale struggling and not knowing what to do.

• Hester, Pearl, and Dimmesdale stand on the scaffold at night, holding hands. The final missing piece of the puzzle, Dimmesdale, is solved. There is an exciting energy among them that night; a meteor soars through the sky, and a letter A forms. Although only for a second or two, that moment, when the three are together, is a special, perfect moment. It is almost like time is frozen and everything is going to be fine. The short moment ends, and the three of them discern Chillingworth standing on the ground in the darkness. This one person is the cause of Hester and Dimmesdale's problems. I find this scene very interesting because there is that glimpse of hope soon followed by the blackness that obscures any of the hope there is.

• In chapter fourteen, Chillingworth realizes what a horrible, evil man he has become. He sees that the once good, moral, kind-hearted person he once was is now gone forever. Hawthorne writes that Chillingworth has lost his "human heart." Hester begs him to return to his former self and relinquish his desire for revenge, but Chillingworth cannot. Again Hawthorne vividly paints a picure in the reader's mind of what Chillingworth is going through. Chillingworth is aware of his actions, but knows that it is too late to go back.

To Answer Your Question.....

When Mr. Dimmesdale sat in his locked closet, I can just see how bloody and graphic his back looked once he finished whipping himself with his bloody scourge. Then I also began to picture how his whole body looked since he constantly fasted for unhealthy spans of time, and how he would go on with his life without sleeping for days on end. I believe this was an important image in the book because it showed the reader how far he went due to the fact of just being upset with himself about his previously preformed actions. It also made the reader wonder what would of happened if Dimmesdale would have just confessed about being the father earlier in the novel. Would he have been normal, or would he have been in about the same situation he was currently living by punishing himself?

The image of Hester, Dimmesdale, and Pearl standing on the scaffold hand in hand comes to mind as own of the most vivid images so far. I can just imagine how Dimmesdale's facial expressions were when Pearl kept questioning him about if he would stand just like that the next day at noon time. This also set an image in my mind about how Hester's reaction to what he said was revealed. This became more impacting when the meteor shot through the sky in the shape of the letter "A". Then I could just see them all sitting there with a look of question located on their faces. This impressed me because of the way Hawthorne projected the scenes to make the reader experience the feeling of actually being in the book, and I think this scene was well written. It also impressed me because it lead straight into the next vivid image I am about to note in this blog.

The last image that was extremely vivid to me was when the sexton brought the glove up to Dimmesdale after church was over. This image made me imagine about how Dimmesdale would have percieved himself to the story the sexton was telling him. I also imagined is facial expressions when he heard that the "A" actually standed for angel instead of what he thought, and also that the devil would have been the one to place the glove by the scaffold since he wouldn't have been there for any other reason. This impressed me because I can't imagine how someone could have stood in a holy place like a church and continued to lie through his teeth about the night that occured previously. Another reason this scene impressed me was because it proved that the previous scene I wrote about was actually reality and wasn't just something that Dimmesdale had dreamed about due to the lack of sleep.

This is the answer to your question... :)

• One of the images that pops into my head, when I think about these chapters is when Dimmesdale and Chillingworth spot Pearl dancing in the graveyard one night. When Pearl notices that they have spotted her she drags her mother away sating that the "black man" has already gotten the minister and he must not get them as well. This impressed me because I wasn't expecting this to happen at all.

• The next picture that was most vivid to me was when Hester, Dimmesdale, and Pearl all three stand on the scaffold holding hands. They did this one night while everyone was asleep. This picture really is important to me beacuse it is like their family has been reunited in a way. While they were all standing on the scaffold together Pearl asks Dimmesdale if he will join them tomorrow, when Hester and Pearl have to return to the scaffold and stand in front of everyone. Dimmesdale turns down the invetation and tells Pearl that one day he will.

• My last and final picture that is a very important part of this book is what Dimmesdale has locked up in his closet. Dimmesdale has a whip with hooks attached to it, in which he uses to beat himseld everyday. He does this because he is punishing himself for his "sin." This part of the book freaks me out because I don't understand how any one person could cause himself so much pain for one little mistake. No one person is perfect everyone makes mistakes.

Dear Mr. Hayden, this is my response :)

- When Dimmesdale, Pearl, and Hester are all standing on the scaffold together during his(Dimmesdale's) vigil, a meteor shoots across the night sky in the shape of an "A".

* This sticks out in my mind because it's so ironic that they would see the letter "A" from a meteor in the sky. This is a sign that indicates that Dimmesdale has also commited adultery along with Hester.

- Chillingworth is asked to assist Mr. Dimmesdale due to his illness. As the two live together, Chillingworth is suspicious that Dimmesdale is hiding something from him. One night, Chillingworth unbuttons Dimmesdale's shirt while he is sleeping and discovers something surprising on his chest.

* This scene in chapter 10 is important because Chillingworth has found something that he is excited about. In later chapters, we find out that Dimmesdale has an "A" on his chest. Now Chillingworth knows Dimmesdale's secret, and he is hiding his sin of adultery.

- Mr. Dimmesdale sits in his closet, locked up, and whips himself with a scourge to punish himself for his sin. He fasts and holds vigils as well.

* This scene shows that Mr. Dimmesdale can't live with his secret sin he has kept for so many years. It impresses me because you would think that it wouldn't be that big of a deal if nobody knew about it, but with him being a priest, it hurts him to know that everybody thinks so much of him when he has commited the same crime as Hester, yet everyone treats her terrible.

What images from chapters 9-15 are most vivid to you? Describe them and explain why they impressed you?

The Scarlet Letter

Chapters 1&2:
In the first two chapters of The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne is displayed in front of all of Boston to tell them that she has committed an unlawful action. They discover that she had committed adultery. In consequence for this, Hester is forced to wear an "A" on her clothes to symbolize that she is an adulterer. Hester soon puts her guilt behind her and accepts her punishment.

Chapters 3&4:
In the crowd at Hester's viewing is her husband, whom Hester has not seen for very long. Hester was sent by her husband, Roger Chillingsworth, to America. He committed to following Hester to America after he completed some unfinished business. It turns out that Roger was captured by the Native Americans and held captive. Hester and Roger meet and she agrees to not reveal him as her husband to anyone.

Chapters 5&6
Now that Hester has been released from her prison sentence, she gets along by doing needlework. For example, she crafted a pair of gloves for the governor. Hester has many problems with her daughter, Pearl. Hester firmly believes that because of her own sin, her daughter is evil and it is her punishment. Because Hester gave up so much and went through horrible times for committing adultery and getting pregnant, the name Pearl seems suiting for her daughter.

Chapters 7&8
There have now been rumors around the town that the governor and other officials are wanting to take Pearl away from Hester. Hester finds out about this, and while she delivers the gloves she made for the governor, she confronts them about the rumor. She explains that because of her mistakes she can teach Pearl first hand on right and wrong. Dimmesdale proves to be on the side of Hester and thinks that she should be able to keep Pearl. This influences the official's decision and becomes reality.

Chapters 9&10
During this chapter the townspeople of Boston are very worried for Dimmesdale. He has been very sick, so a physician of the town, Chillingworth, has moved in with him. The town adores Chillingworth at the beginning but then they start to see an evil look on his face. Some believe that Chillingworth is trying to take Dimmesdales soul. Dimmesdale has many scenes of biblical adultery in his room. Little do they both know, they were both involved in the adultery act of Hester. Chillingworth's room contain a laboratory. Chillingworth hopes to be able to find a cure for Dimmesdale. Dimmesdale is very hard on himself for commiting adultery with Hester. He suffers from a large amount of guilt. He often beats himself because he can not confess his sins.

Chapters 11&12
Dimmesdale can not hardly bare the sins he has committed. He tries to punish himself by beating himself and fasting. He decides to go to the scaffold to confess his sins when Hester and Pearl see him. They all go to the scaffold and stand there together. Pearl mentions to Dimmesdale that she would like him to stand with them the next day at noon time, but Dimmesdale says it is not yet time for him to do so. This does not make Pearl like Dimmesdale very much. While standing, Pearl notices Chillingworth watching the three stand together on the scaffold.

Chapters 13&14
It has been seven years since Pearl's birth and Hester is a very different person. She tends the sick and whoever needs tending. Hester only goes to tend at night. She does not want attention from people because of her good deeds. She wants to do it out of the goodness of her heart. More people are beginning to view the A as "able" instead of "adulterer". Hester decides to ask Chillingworth to stop his tormenting the minister. She notes that no matter what he does, the letter can not be removed by his actions so there is no use in trying to get revenge.

The Scarlet Letter: Pilgrims and Puritans

Kris Rogers's Hemingway Quotes

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
"I am one of those who like to stay late at the café," the older waiter said. "With all those who do not want to go to bed. With all those who need a light for the night."
- old waiter

He disliked bars and bodegas. A clean, well-lighted café was a very different thing. Now, without thinking further, he would go home to his room. He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep.
- narrator taliking about the old waiter

"He was in despair."
"What about?"
"Nothing."
"How do you know it was nothing?"
"He has plenty of money."
- conversation between the waters at the café

A Day's Wait
"People don't die with a fever of one hundred and two. That's a silly way to talk."
"I know they do. At school in France, the boys told me you can't live with forty-four degrees. I've got a hundred and two."
-conversation between Schatz and the narrator

After a while he said to me, " You don't have to stay in here with me, Papa, if it bothers you."
"It doesn't bother me."
"No, I mean you don't have to stay if it's going to bother you."
-conversation between Schatz and the narrator

"Take this with water."
"Do you think it will do any good?"
"Of course it will."
-conversation between Schatz and the narrator

Hills Like White Elephants
"It's really an awfully simple operaion, Jid," the man said. "It's not really an operation at all."
-man talking to the girl at the bar

"We can have everything."
"No, we can't."
"We can have the whole world."
"No, we can't."
"We can go everywhere."
"No, we can't. It isn't ours any more."
"It's ours."
"No, we can't. And once they take it away, you never get it back."
-conversation between the man and woman

"They look like white elephants," she said.
"I've never seen one," the man drank his beer. "No, you wouldn't have."
-conversation between the man and woman

The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber
"You've gotten awfully brave, awfully suddenly," his wife said contemptuously, but her contempt was not secure. She was very afraid of something. Macomber laughed, a very natural hearty laugh. "You know I have ," he said. "I really have." "Isn't it sort of late?" Margot said bitterly. Because she had done the best she could for many years back and the way they were together now was no one person's fault. "Not for me," said Macomber.
-conversation between Francis and Margaret

"That was a pretty thing to do," he said in a toneless voice. "He would have left you too."
-Robert Wilson speaking to Margaret about shooting Francis

"We'll leave the Mannlicher in the car with the Memsahib."
-Wilson talking to Francis before going to get the buffalo in the forest

"If you make a scene I'll leave you, darling," Margot said quietly.
"No, you won't."
"You can try it and see."
"You won't leave me."
"No," she said. "I won't leave you and you'll behave your self."
-conversation between Francis and Margaret

So, Robert Wilson thought to himself, she is giving him a
ride, isn't she? Or do you suppose that's her idea of
putting up a good show? How should a woman act when she
discovers her husband is a bloody coward? She's damned
cruel but they're all cruel. They govern, of course, and to
govern one has to be cruel sometimes. Still, I've seen
enough of their damn terrorism.
-narrator speaking about Robert Wilson's thoughts

Olivia Villain's "Hills Like White Elephants" Summary

"Hills Like White Elephants" is a story in which a couple argues about an operation teh girl is thinking about having. It begins with the couple at a train station in Barcelona. The girl points out that the hills in the distance look like white elephants. An arguement ensues, and the man is trying to convince the girl that the operation is so simple, it is as if it is not really even an operation. He says afterwards that they will be able to have everything but the girl contradicts him. She says they cannot have the world anymore because it will not belong to them, and once they take it away, you will never be able to have it back. She is referring to the child she is carrying, and once she has the procedure, which is an abortion, things will never be the same. The man tries to make her feel better, but she only says she does not feel anything. The man then takes their bags to where the train will be coming, and then asks the girl if she feels any better. She tells him nothing is wrong with her, almost as if the argument had never taken place.

Olivia Villain's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" Summary

"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" is a short story about a man who overcomes his fears. It begins with Francis Macomber on a safari in Africa with his wife, Margaret. There, their guide is Robert Wilson. One day on the safari, a lion comes very close to the camp, so Wilson decides they will go after it. When they get to it, Macomber shoots it, but is unable to kill it before it runs into the brush to hide. After a little while, Wilson, Macomber, and the two gun bearers go in after it. The lion then charges the men, and Macomber runs away in fear. His wife witnesses this, so then decides it is okay to be with Wilson that night. The next day, they go after buffalo, also with Margaret there. Macomber kills two buffalo, but one he only injures. However, he is elated that he has overcome his fears, and voices that to the others. When the third buffalo comes charging them, Macomber does not move while shooting at it, but consistently misses it. Margaret has his extra gun, and instead of shooting the buffalo that was charging her husband, she shoots and kills Macomber. Wilson knows it was not really an accident, and lets her know that fact as she is hysterical over killing Macomber.

Olivia Villain's "A Day's Wait" Summary

"A Day's Wait" is a story about a young boy who comes down with a fever of one hundred and two degrees. As the boy's father reads to him so he would fall asleep, the boy is very detached and not paying any attention. When the boy tells his father he does not have to stay with him if it bothered him, the father decides it is okay to leave the boy alone for awhile. When the father comes back, the boy will not let him in the room for fear of him catching the sickness he has. Only then does the boy reveal to his father that he believes he is going to die because he thinks a person is unable to survive with a temperature of forty-four degrees. The father then explains that only occurs on a Celsius thermometer, and the boy's temperature was taken on a Fahrenheit thermometer. After the boy finally understands that he is not going to die, he relaxes and sees that he will get better.

Olivia Villain's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" Summary

"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" is a short story dealing with a man's existentialist view on the world. In the story, two waiters at a cafe are having a conversation about an old deaf man taht will sit at the cafe and drink until the early hours of the morning. The younger waiter just wants to go home to his wife, and even comments on how the old man should have killed himself the week before, but the older waiter knows that the clean, well-lighted cafe is a good, safe place, as opposed to a dark, dirty bar or bodega, or even his own home. The older waiter knows that sometimes a person just needs a nice place to be so that he or she does not have to be alone or feel alone.

Anna's Hemingway's Quotes

"A Well-Lighted Place"
1. "Our nada who art in nada as it is in nada." - older waiter
2."the light is very bright and pleasent but the bar is unpolished." - older waiter
3." it was late and everyone had left the cafe except an old man who sat in the shadow that the leaves of the tree made against the electric light." - narrator


"A day's Wait"
1. "The hold over him relaxed too, finally, and the next day it was very slack and he cried very easily at little things that were of no importance." - narrator
2."I'd rather stay awake." - the boy
3."No, I mean you don't have to stay it it's going to bother you."


"Hills Like White Elephants"
1."They look like white elephants." - the girl.
2."yes", "everything tastesnof licorice. especially all the things you've waited so long for, like absinthe." - the girl
3."It's really an awfully simple operation, jig, its not really an operation at all." - the man


"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"
1." No, it's mine that's red today,but Mr. Wilson's is also red."- Margaret
2."No, i suppose i rate that for the rest of my life now." - Francis Macomber
3. "I have a living to make. You know in Africa no woman ever misses her lion and no white man ever bolts." - Wilson
4."Mr. Wilson, that beautiful red-faced Mr. Robert Wilson." - Margaret
5."That's better, please is much better. now I'll stop." - Wilson

Tibbett's Hemingway Summaries

"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"


It was late one evening in a small cafe when an elderly, deaf gentlman was sitting outside on a shaded patio. The only people taking care of the cafe at this hour were two waiters. One was said to be an older, patient man. The other was noted to be a younger, impatient man that could only think about getting home and in bed with his wife. Throughout the story, a conversation occurs among the two waiters about the older gentleman that seems to sit in the cafe and drink the night away. The conversation progresses with the information that the man had previously tried to commit suicide by hanging, but was cut down by his niece. During their conversation the younger waiter becomes more and more irritated due to the fact that the old man just sits there and drinks and never seems like he is going to leave. However, the older waiter seems to understand why the old man enjoys sitting and watching his surroundings at night and continually sticks up for him. At the end of the story, the younger waiter kicks the deaf man out of the cafe. When this occurs the older waiter states that a pleasant cafe is nothing like a bodega that is open all night long, and the older waiter soon starts stating the lords prayer with the spanish word for "nothing" in place of any words of importance. This story shows that the older waiter understands what the old, deaf man is going through with nowhere to go to at night and how a person becomes lonely with no friends and no place to feel welcome.






"A Day's Wait"



A nine-year-old boy comes into the room, where his father notices he looks ill. He says he simply has a headache, and the father suggests he go back to bed. The boy argues that he is fine, and that he doesn't want to go to bed. It is revealed that the boy has a fever, so his father calls the doctor. When the doctor arrives, he takes the boys temperature, which is 102 degrees. The doctor gives the boy some medicine. To make him feel better, his father reads him a book about pirates. The objective of reading the book was to put the boy to sleep, but he simply stared at the foot of the bed. The boy insists the father leave if it is bothering him, but he remains in the room. The father thought that the boy may feel lightheaded, so he left to give the boy some privacy. The father went outside and walked their dog. It was a cold, brisk day so he decided to hunt some quail to kill time until heading back to the house. He killed two quail and missed five during the hunt, but was pleased to have found a covey close to the house and happy there were so many left for a future hunt. When the father returned home, he discovered that the boy wouldn't let anyone in to see him, claiming they would become ill as he was. He took the boy's temperature, which was around 100 degrees. The boy worried that the pills prescribed by the doctor wouldn't be of any help. The father decided to continue reading from the boy's book, but the boy continued not to pay attention. The boy asked how long he had left to live. The father argued that the boy was fine, who continued to say that he was going to die. He believed this because he heard from several boys at school in France that if your temperature reached 44 degrees, you would die. His dad, relieved, said that the boys in France measured temperature with celsius, and that his 102 degree fever was in farenheit. He explained to the boy that he was not going to die. The boy finally relaxed, but became upset easily the following day over little things.



"Hills Like White Elephants"




An American man and the girl that was with him sat at a table outside building looking at the hills across the valley of Ebro. They were waiting in the heat for the express from Barcelona to arrive. While waiting, the man suggested they drink beer. The girl remained to look at the hills and said that they look like while elephants. Then, they began to argue about never seeing white elephants. It becomes evident that the girl does not understand the native language. They continue to experiment with the different drinks sold at the station. They continue to argue about the types of alcoholic drinks and the girl states that every drink she has tried tastes like licorice, especially all of the things she has waited so long for, like absinthe. They continue their discussion about the hills and this conversation turns into one about an unknown operation. This leads to the couple discussing how this operation is very simple and wouldn't change their lives. It is noted that the man would like the girl to have this operation, but he says only to do so if that is what she wants. The man stresses this is what he wants done, without completely coming out and stating it. The girl says that she will do this to please the man, and that her wants are less important. The girl continues to look at the surroundings and says that they could have everything they wanted. When the man says that this is true, she changes her outlook and argues that it is impossible that they ever have all they want. She then asked if they could have another beer. Afterward, she states that their conversation should come to a halt. The man continues to talk until she continually asks him to stop. The man takes the bags to the other side of the station. He sees that the train isn't coming so detours into the barroom for another drink by himself. Once he leaves the bar, he goes back to the table and asks the girl how she is feeling. She states that she is fine. The overall meaning behind the story is that the girl is planning on having an abortion just because the man wants her to.

"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"

The story begins with Francis Macomber and his wife Margaret who are on a safari hunt in Africa, lead by Robert Wilson. They are preparing for lunch and begin to disucss the morning's hunt. Margaret is displeased at her husband for becoming a coward during the lion hunt. While Wilson tries to comfort Francis about the incident, Margaret makes several sarcastic remarks. That same day, they go on another hunt, where Francis feels ashamed about being scared earlier. He does, however, do a good job on this hunt. That night, Francis thinks about being scared of the lions. This leads to several flashbacks showing their hunt with the lions, and how Francis' wife kisses Wilson after her husband fails to kill the lion. It is noted that their marriage has suffered its problems in the past, but she stays with him because of his money and he stays with her because of her beauty. He wakes up and sees that his wife's cot is empty. After several hours, she returns and it is evident that she has been with Wilson. Wilson doesn't feel bad about this, however, because he feels Francis has driven his wife towards him. After breakfast, they go on another hunt to kill buffalo. Margaret insists that she go along. She gets her way. Francis again does very well by shooting the biggest buffalo of the three they find. Francis is happy about his killings, but his wife tries to bring down his spirits, saying that it was unsportsmanlike to kill the buffalo from a car. This doesn't change his happiness, though. Margaret seems threatened by the change in her husband and his new attitude. The group must track and kill the third buffalo, which is wounded. They set up their kill zone, where Francis stands ready to shoot the animal. It begins to charge, and right before getting to him, his wife shoots him in the head, making it look like an accident. Wilson tells her that the world will look at this as an accident, but he will always know it was a murder, and that it was her intention throughout the entire hunt.

Savannah's Hemingway Quotes

"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"

1. "He's lovely. I'm not lonely. I have a wife waiting in bed for me." younger waiter

2. "You have youth, confidence, and a job," the older waiter said. "You have everything." older waiter

3. "You talk like an old man yourself. He can go buy a bottle and drink at home." younger waiter

"A Day's Wait"

1. "I'd rather stay awake." sick boy

2. "You can't come in," he said. "You mustn't get what I have." sick boy

3. "Poor old Schatz. It's like miles and kilometers." narrator

"Hills Like White Elephants"

1. "It's really an awfully simple operation, Jig." man

2. "Thats the only thing that bothers us. It's the only thing that's made us unhappy." man

3. "Once they take it away, you never get it back." woman

"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"

1. "Let's not talk about the lion," she said. Margaret

2. "Not strange, really," he said, "which would you rather do? Take a good birching or lose your pay?" Wilson

3. "I bolted like a rabbit." Macomber

4. "Oh, the lion! I'd forgotten the lion!" Margaret

5. "Oh, please stop it," she said. "Please, pleast stop it." Margaret

Sarah's Hemingway Quotes

"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"

1. "He's lovely. I'm not lonely. I have a wife waiting in bed for me." young waiter

2. "You do not understand. This is a clean and pleasant cafe. It is well lighted." older waiter

3. "What did he fear? It was not fear or dread. It was a nothing that he knew too well. It was all a nothing and a man was nothing too." narrator

"A Day's Wait"

1. "You don't have to stay in here with me, Papa if it bothers you." the boy/Schatz

2. "But his gaze at the foot of the bed relaxed slowly. The hold over himself relaxed too..." narrator

3."Absolutely, it's like miles and kilometers." father

"Hills Like White Elephants"

1. "That's the only thing that bothers us. It's the only thing that's made us unhappy." the American man

2. "No, it isn't. And once they take it away, you never get it back." the girl

3. "I feel fine. There's nothing wrong with me. I feel fine." the girl

"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"

1. "You know you have a very red face, Mr. Wilson." Margot Macomber

2. "Don't worry about me talking... You know in Africa no woman ever misses her lion and no white man ever bolts." Wilson

3. "Well, now she has something on you." Macomber

4. "His wife said nothing and eyed him strangely." narrator

5. "That's better. Please is much better. Now I'll stop." Wilson

Hills Like White Elephants

This story takes place at a train station where a male and female go and have a discussion that is clearly an awkward one. Later in the conversation, we find out that the conversation is about an operation, which we discover through context clues to be about abortion. The two have an argument about whether they should proceed with the operation in which the female agrees to the abortion. The females says, "I don't care about me." This insinuates that the female is trying to please the male even though it goes against what she wants. The male now tries to tell her that what she wants is fine with him. When their train approaches, he carries their bags to the train, take a drink by himself, and then the girl ensures the male that she is fine and the story ends.

The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

Francis Macomber and his wife, Margaret, are on an African hunting safari. Wilson, the the tour guide and hunting instructor, takes Francis and Margot to a sight where there are lions for Francis to hunt. When under the pressure of hunting the lions, Francis gets terrified and runs away from the lions. In result, Margot taunts him and make him feel very bad about himself. During the night, Francis wakes up to Margot sneaking in the tent. She had been sleeping with Wilson. Francis quotes, "You said there would not be any of that this time." This informs us that Margot has cheated on Francis before. Francis finally begins to enjoy the hunting once he succeeds in a kill. Francis and Wilson have to sneak up on an injured buffalo to ensure that it does not mull the next people to come along. The buffalo comes out of the brush and charges Francis and Macomber, when Mrs. Macomber , in the car, had shot the buffalo with the 6.5 Mannlicher as it seemed about to gore Macomber and had hit her husband about two inches up and a little to one side of the base of his skull. Wilson asks why she did not just poison him as the people of England do. She repeats for Wilson to stop it, but he does not until she says please.

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place

"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" is written by Ernest Hemingway. This story is about an old man, who is deaf and without anyone but his niece. The deaf man attempts suicide one night but his niece brings the catastrophic event to a stop. The man attempts to drink his loneliness away every night. At the cafe, there is an older and a younger waiter. The young waiter is very impatient with the deaf man because he wants to stay at the cafe after they are closed, but the young waiter wants to go home to his wife. The older waiter is apathetic of the old man's intentions to stay because he would not want to be alone either. The story ends with the younger waiter refusing to give the man more to drink and they all go on their way.

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place

1. "He was in a despair"
"What about?"
"Nothing" -Conversation between the two waiters
2. "You don't understand. This is a clean and pleasant café. It is well lighted. The light is very good, and also, now, there are the shadows of the leaves"- Old Waiter
3. Some lived in it and never felt it and he knew it was all nada y pues nada, nada y pues nada.- Hemingway

A Day's Wait

1. "About what time do you think I'll die?"- Schatz
2. " You poor Schatz," I said. "Poor old Schatz. It's like miles and kilometers. You aren't going to die. That's a different thermometer. On that thermometer thirty-seven is normal. On this kind it's ninety-eight."- Schatz's Father

Hills Like White Elephants

1. "They look like white elephants," she said. "I've never seen one," the man drank his beer. "No you wouldn't."-Conversation between the man and the.
2. "What did you say?""I said we could have everything.""No we can't.""We can have the whole world.""We can go everywhere.""No we can't, it isn't ours anymore."- Conversation between the man and woman

The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber

1. "No," she said. "It's mine that's red today, ut Mr. Wilson's is always red."-Margaret Macomber.
2. “Oh, yes. They could raise a row if they chose to complain. But they don’t. They prefer it to the fines.”“How strange!” said Macomber.“Not strange, really,” Wilson said. “Which would you rather do? Take a good birching or lose your pay?”-Conversation between Macomber and Wilson
3. “You know I don’t think I’d ever be afraid of anything again,” Macomber said to Wilson. “Something happened in me after we first saw the buff and started after him. Like a dam bursting. It was pure excitement.”-Macomber after chasing the buffalo.
4.“You’ve gotten awfully brave, awfully suddenly"-Margaret Macomber
5."That’s better,” Wilson said. “Please is much better. Now I’ll stop.”-Wilson

"Hills Like White Elephants"
1.) "It's really an awfully simple operation, Jig. It's not really an operation at all." -The man
2.) "I love you now. You know I love you" -The man
3.) "Will you please stop talking?" -Jig


"Day's Wait"
1.) "At school in France, the boys told me you can't live with forty-four degrees. I've got one hundren and two." -The boy (Schatz)
2.) "You don't have to stay in here with me Papa, if it bothers you." -The boy
3.) "It's like miles and kilometers" -The father


"The Short, Happy Like of Francis Macomber"
1.) "Margot was too beautiful for Macomber to ever leave her, and Macomber had too much money for Margot to ever leave him." -Narrator
2.) "That is better," Wilson said, "Please is much better. Now I'll stop talking."
3.) "You've gotten awfully brave, awfully suddenly." -Margot


"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"
1.) Some lived in it and never felt it and he knew it was all nada y pues nada, nada y pues nada. -Narrator
2.) "This is a clean and pleasant cafe. It is well-lighted." -Older waiter

"A Day's Wait":

He seemed to know all about influenza and said there was nothing worry about if the fever did not go above one hundred and four degrees. - E. Hemingway

You don't have to stay in here with me, papa, if it bothers you. - Sick Boy

Poor old Schatz, it's like miles and kilometers. You aren't going to die. - Papa



"The Short Happy Life of Francis Maycomber":

Let's not talk about the lion. - Margot Maycomber

No, I suppose I rate that for the rest of my life now. - Francis Maycomber

Shoot for bone, break him down. - Wilson

Well, now she has something on you. - Francis Maycomber

Why didn't you poison him? That's what they do in England. - Wilson



"Hills Like White Elephants":

Yes, everything tastes like licorice. Especially all the things you've waited so long for. - Girl

It's really an awfully simple operation, Jig, it's really not really an operation at all. -Man

No, we can't. it isn't ours anymore. No it isn't. And once they take it away, you never get it back. - Girl



"A Clean Well Lighted place":

You should've killed yourself last week. - Waiter

The waiter watched him go down the street, a very old man walking unsteadily but with dignity. - Ernest Hemingway

The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

1. "Then it's going to be just like the lion." - Margot

2. " I hated it, I loathed it." - Margot

3. " Does it make a difference if i do or not?" - Macomber

Hills Like White Elephants

1. "I don't want you to do anything you don't want to do." - the man

2. "Will you please stop talking?" - the girl

3. " I know. But if i do it, then it will be nice againif i say things are like white elephants, and you'll like it?" - the girl

Olivia Villain's Hemingway Quotes

"A Clean Well-Lighted Place"
1. "Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada."- the older waiter
2. "I am one of those who like to stay late at the cafe. With all those who do not want to go to bed. With all those who need a light for the night."- the older waiter
3. "He dislikes bars and bodegas. A clean, well-lighted cafe was a very different thing."- narrator

"Day's Wait"
1. "It was a bright, cold day, the ground covered with a sleet that had frozen so that it seemed as if all the bare trees, the bushes, the cut brush, and all the grass and the bare ground had been varnished with ice."- narrator
2. "He had been waiting to die all day, ever since nine o'clock in the morning."- narrator
3. "Coming out while you were poised unsteadily on the icy springy brush they made difficult shooting and I killed two, missed five and started back pleased to have found a covey close to the house and happy there were so many left to find on another day."- narrator

"Hills Like Whit Elephants"
1. "I know we will. You don't have to be afraid. I've known lots of people that have done it."- the man
2. "I don't feel any way. I just know things."- the girl
3. "All right. I was trying. I said the mountains look like white elephants. Wasn't that bright?"- the girl

"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"
1. "Yes, darling. That's the way I meant it to be. But the trip was spoiled yesterday. We don't have to talk about it, do we?"- Margaret Macomber
2. "Why didn't you poison him? That's what they do in England."- Robert Wilson

Tibbett's Hemingway Quotes

"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"
1.) "He should have killled himself last week." (Younger Waiter)

2.) "His neice looks after him. You said she cut him down." (Younger Waiter)


"A Day's Wait"
1.) "This was a light epidimic of the flu and there was no danger if you avoided pneumonia." (Doctor)

2.) "You don't have to stay in here with me Papa, if it bothers you?" (Young Boy/ Schatz)

3.) "About what time do you think I'm going to die?" "I know they do. At School in France the boys told me you can't live with forty-four degrees. I've got a hundred and two." (Schatz)

4.) "Absolutely." "It's like miles and kilometers." (Papa)


"Hills Like White Elephants"
1.) "They look like white elephants." "They're lovely hills." "They don't really look like white elephants." (Girl)

2.) "It's really an awfully simple operation, Jig." "It's not really an operation at all." "I know you wouldn't mind it, Jig. It's really not anything. It's just to let air in." "I'll go with you and I'll stay with you all the time. They just let the air in and then it's all perfectlynatural." (Guy)3.) "No we can't. It isn't ours anymore." (Girl)


"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"
1.) She was an extremely handsome and well-kept woman of the beauty and social position which had, five years before, commanded five thousand dollars as the price of endorsing, with photographs, a beauty product which she had never used. She had been married to Francis Macomber for eleven years. (Narrator)

2.) "We all take a beating everyday, you know, one way or another." (Wilson)

A Day's Wait

1. "No, I mean you don't have to stay if it's going to bother you." - the boy

2. "On that thermometer thirty-seven is normal. On this kind it's ninety-eight." - Papa

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
1."It was late and everyone had left the cafe except an old man whos sat in the shadow the leaves of the tree made against the electric light."- the narrator
2."Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee." -the narrator

A Day's Wait
1. "You don't have to stay in here with me, Papa, if it bothers you." -the boy

Hills Like White Elephants
1. "Everything tastes like licorice. Especially all the things you've waited so long for, like absinthe." - the woman
2. "It's really a simple operation, Jig. It's not really an operation at all." -the man
3. "I'm perfectly willing to go through with it if it means anything to you." -the man

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place

1. "With all those who do not want to go to bed. With all those who need a light for the night." - the waitor

2. "The light is verybright and pleasant but the bar is unpolished." - the waitor


3. " Each night i am reluctant to close up because there may be someone who needs the cafe." - older waitor

Ellery's Hemingway Quotelets

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place 1. "I never get into bed before three o'clock. He should have killed himself last week." -young waiter 2. "You have youth, confidence, and a job. You have everything." -old waiter 3."It was late and everyone had left the cafe except an old man who sat in the shadow the leaves of the tree m,ade against the electric light." -narrator


A Day's Wait

1. "I know they do. At school in France, the boys told me you can't live with forty-four degrees. I've got a hundered and two."
-ill boy

2. "no i mean you don't have to stay if it is going to bother you."
-ill boy

3."He had been waiting to die all day, ever since nine o'clock in the morning."
-narrator/the boy's dad

Hills Like White Elephants

1."It's really an awfully simple operation, Jig. It's nt really an operation at all."
the man

2."No, it isn't. And once they take it away, you never get it back."
-the girl

3."They look like white elephants."(in reference to the hills)
-the girl

The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

1."That's better. Please is much better.Now I'll stop."
-Wilson

2."You know something did happen to me. I feel absolutely different."
-Francis Macomber

3."He would have left you too."
-Wilson

4. "I should think it would be even more unpleasant to do it, wife or no wife,or to talk about having done it."
-Wilson

5."Now she has something on you."
-Macomber

Ernest Hemingway Short Story Quotes

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
1. "You should have killed yourself last week." - The Younger Waiter
2. "A clean, well-lighted café was a very different thing." - The Narrator
3. "It is not only a question of youth and confidence although those things are very beautiful." - The Older Waiter

A Day's Wait
1. "About what time do you think I'm going to die?" - Schatz
2. "At school in France the boys told me that you can't live with fourty-four degrees." - Schatz
3. "It's like miles and kilometers." - The Narrator

Hills Like White Elephants
1. "They look like white elephants." - The Girl
2. "It's just to let the air in." - The Boy
3. "There's nothing wrong with me. I feel fine." - The Girl

The Short Happy Life Of Francis Macomber
1. "Well, here's to the lion." - Robert Wilson
2. "I've got to kill the damned things." - Francis Macomber
3. "Want to take pictures?" - Robert Wilson
4. "That was a pretty thing to do." - Robert Wilson
5. "Oh, please stop it." - Margot Macomber

A Day's Wait

"A Day's Wait" is a story in which a young boy thinks that his fever of 102 degrees Fahrenheit is fatal. His father is reading to him to help him fall asleep, but the boys says that he would rather stay awake. We later discover that this is because the boy believes he will never wake up. The boy was in France when his peers told him that one could not live with a fever of 44 degrees. Little did the boy know, his peers were talking about a celcius thermometer. When the boy described his situation to his mother, she quotes, "Poor old Schatz. It's like miles and kilometers. You aren't going to die." The boy's detection of his well-being soothed him into sleep until the morning when he unsurprisingly awoke.

Hemingway Summaries

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