A Day's Wait
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Short story by Ernest Hemingway | |
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Published in | The Snows of Kilimanjaro |
Publication date | 1933 |
"A Day's Wait" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway published in his 1933 short story collection Winner Take Nothing, which portrays a young boy's reaction to becoming ill.[1][2][3][4]
Plot
The story is narrated in first person by the father, who calls his boy Schatz (German, meaning darling).[5] When the boy gets a fever, a doctor prescribes three medicines and tells the boy's father that his temperature is 102 degrees. The boy is quiet and does not listen when his father reads to him Howard Pyle's book about pirates. Later, when the father returns from hunting game, the boy asks when he will die. He had believed his temperature to be lethal because he heard in France (where Celsius is used) that one cannot live with a temperature over 44 degrees. When the father explains to him the difference between Fahrenheit and Celsius, the boy relaxes. The next day, "he cried very easily at little things that were of no importance."
Reception
Sheldon Norman Grebstein Junior said Hemingway handled "a potentially sentimental situation without expressing feeling in overt terms and without calling directly upon the reader's sense of pathos. We surmise the father's love and concern for his sick son not from any declaration of it in exposition or dialogue but rather from a series of observations, gestures and dramatic metaphors".[6]
This story is very close to the one by Amicis "From the Apennines to the Andys", in his book "Heart". There, a little Italian boy has adventures while trying to find his mom who went to Argentina to work, to help the family finances. The boy gets sick and is sure he'd die when he hears that his temperature is over 100. The book was published in 1886.
References
- ^ "A Day´s Wait by Ernest Hemingway". gs.cidsnet.de. Archived from the original on 2005-12-21. Retrieved 27 December 2013.
- ^ Striker, Jonet. "The Short Story Elements In A Day's Wait". articlesnatch.com. Archived from the original on 28 December 2013. Retrieved 27 December 2013.
- ^ Cearley, Valery Faye Thomson. Exploring connections in Ernest Hemingway's "A day's wait". worlcat.org. OCLC 50542423.
- ^ "A Day's Wait". litmed.med.nyu.edu. Retrieved 27 December 2013.
- ^ Stafford, N. E. (1999). Piggott, Arkansas (ed.). "'A Day's Wait'". Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies. 30 (2): 139 – via EBSCO.
- ^ Beegel, S. F. (1993). "Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates and male taciturnity in Hemingway's 'A Day's Wait'". Studies in Short Fiction. 30 (4): 535.[dead link]
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- "A Day's Wait" (1933)
- "The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio" (1933)
- "A Way You'll Never Be" (1933)
- "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" (1936)
- "The Capital of the World" (1936)
- "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" (1936)
- "Old Man at the Bridge" (1938)
collections
- Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923)
- In Our Time (1925)
- Men Without Women (1927)
- Winner Take Nothing (1933)
- The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938)
- The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1961)
- The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War (1969)
- The Nick Adams Stories (1972)
- The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway (1987)
- Ernest Hemingway: The Collected Stories (1995)
- "On Writing"
- 88 Poems (1979)
- Complete Poems
- Today is Friday (1926)
- The Fifth Column (1938)
- The Spanish Earth (1937 film)
journalism
- By-Line: Ernest Hemingway (1967)
- Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters, 1917–1961 (1981)
- Dateline: Toronto (1985)
- The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of Ernest Hemingway (2011)
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"The Killers" |
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A Farewell to Arms |
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To Have and Have Not |
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For Whom the Bell Tolls |
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The Old Man and the Sea |
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- Bacall to Arms (1946 cartoon)
- Hemingway: On the Edge (1987 play)
- In Love and War (1996 film)
- Midnight in Paris (2011 film)
- Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012 film)
- Cooper & Hemingway: The True Gen (2013 documentary)
- Papa: Hemingway in Cuba (2015 film)
- Genius (2016 film)
- Hemingway (2021 documentary series)
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- Iceberg theory
- Ernest Hemingway International Billfishing Tournament
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- Hello Hemingway (1990 film)
- Hemingway: A Portrait (1999 documentary)
- Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure (1999 documentary)
- Hemingway crater
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- Patrick Hemingway (son)
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- Martha Gellhorn (third wife)
- Mary Welsh Hemingway (fourth wife)
- Lorian Hemingway (granddaughter)
- Margaux Hemingway (granddaughter)
- John Hemingway (grandson)
- Mariel Hemingway (granddaughter)
- Grace Hall Hemingway (mother)
- Leicester Hemingway (brother)
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