I must admit that despite not being at the center of your course I could not help but think of how much Hemingway’s content was influenced by his life. Many of the stories like “The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife” were based directly on personal experiences of Hemingway’s life. Since it is not the focus of your course, I am trying to just accepted the content and concentrate more on writing style and the way Hemingway writes something. I have found it difficult to pay close attention to both the story and the writing at the same time and have had to reread several times.

“The Three-Day Blow” offered an interesting irony to the title “In Our Time”, but maybe it is just my jaded view of the television. Nick and Bill sit and discuss intelligently on various topics like books and baseball, but I fear this sophisticated discourse is becoming rare in “our” time of cable television which has done much to dry up serious dialogue.