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