Three-Day Blow
The main characters are Bill and Nick. The story is basically a conversation between the two. Nick and Bill sat and talked about baseball and books they read as they drank whiskey. They were wanting to drink until they got drunk.
Nick had been going with Marjorie, and they were going to get married. However, they broke up and went their separate ways. As a result, Nick and Bill continued to drink and get drunk. Nick wanted to forget his problems with Marjorie.
This was an interesting story. However, it was a little confusing at first, but after I read it through and thought about the story, I began to understand it more.
Now, let's look at "Hills Like White Elephants."
Hills Like White Elephants
This is another story that is basically dialogue. It's a conversation between an American man and a girl. They were sitting at a bar and ordered beer. The girl sat and stared out the window at the line of hills. They were white, so she told the man that they looked like white elephants.
The girl was talking to the man about her operation. He told her it was a simple operation. They talked about how they knew people who had done the operation. They also talked about how they loved each other. Now, you'll have to read the stories to find out what happened.
My View Point
Both of these stories are interesting and a little confusing. Readers aren't sure what is happening except through dialogue, and that can be confusing, too.
The dialogue between the two main characters is one thing the two stories had in common. Also, the main characters in both stories drank beer while they talked. In the first story, the characters seemed to want to escape their trials, so they drank beer. They kept talking about drinking beer and getting drunk. In the second story, the beer was more of a social event rather than trying to forget about their problems. They didn't seem to want to forget their problems. They were sitting down at the train station and talking while they drank beer and waited for the train to arrive.
However, I do recommend these stories to anyone who likes to read stories by Ernest Hemingway.
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