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In Our Time: Review

Half-way through reading Hemmingway's collection In Our Time I was interrupted
by my roommate, George. He wanted to know how I liked the story. He seems to be
very impressed that I'm reading Hemmingway. I explained to him that it was, in
fact, not one story, but a collection of short stories. He asked if they had a
common theme or not, and I found it difficult to answer. "Yeas and no," I said.
I then went on to explain that although one character, Nick, appeared
occasionally, the stories didn't flow as one large story. "It's sort of like a
painting," I told him, "If you could pick out any one individual brush-stroke
and study it, it would be meaningless. But if you pull back and see all the
brush-strokes, you can view the painting in its entirety." He thought this was
very wise and went away, contented that I was a literate genius.

Myself, I didn't really know what to gather from the stories. I've never
honestly read any Hemmingway previously. I've started to......

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