Three Day Blow from Ernest Hemingway

My second story was from Ernest Hemingway, it was called Three Day Blow.

Here you can find it.

In these story there is two friend(Nick and Bill), talking to each other about life,books,baseball, etc.

In these story which was touchable for me was that:

Nick seemed so indecisive even about very important issues about himself. Nick totally reminded me Benjamin from The Graduate ( a guy which is standing at left-top ). He broke up with her girlfriend. But it is unclear in the story that is nick wanted to broke up or she wanted it. But Nick is thinking to go back to relationship and trying to decide to marry or not to marry with her. By this thoughts of Nick i thought he broke up with her because he has opportunity for return his decision.

While i was doing research about Hemingway, i find interesting theory of him;

Iceberg Theory:
These theory contains not giving simple informations about the story, if you will describe them strong enough , there would be no need for giving these information openly.

For example in this story, there is no clear information about from who this relationship between Nick and Marge ended. But from the attitude of Nick, we can understand he dumped Marge, i think these is use of the theory.

I liked that story indeed, Nick's pensiveness was very realistic,

I will recommend it

The Garden Party from Katherine Mansfield

As i said before, Eng course in SU helped me to find a new interest area. This area is "Trying to read short stories wihout saying "So what?" , trying to understand them and enjoy" (in detailed way ^^^). Yesterday i have read The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield. There is short information about te author;

• Born in New Zealand, moved to London when she was 15.

• Modernist writer of short fiction.

• Other well-known stories; The Daughters of the Late Colonel ,The Fly

• Unfortunately died early; when she was 34 from tuberculosis

Story begins with a scene of a rush caused by a party which organized by wealthy family. I don't want to write the rest of the story because i thought maybe you want to read it.

Just click ;)

My opinions about the story,

Although i sometimes forgot because of the rush caused by regular life i am being adrifted and thinking like the television, common newspaper, in other words thinking in a way which i am expected, i frequently realize that our bones even will not exist 100 years later. So people will only remember us with what we have created in our life, or another option, no one will remember... And then i am giving up all the complex, little problems...

In this story, when Laura visits the poor family and saw the dead body, she is trying to say something;

"Isn't life," she stammered, "isn't life--" But what life was she couldn't explain. No matter. He quite understood.

So if i were Laura, i would say,

Isn't life is so short to be obsessed for little things like social statue of yourself, how much GPA have you done, how many stylish clothes you have etc.

So, how would you complete this sentence? ;)

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