Ernest Hemmingway, a Very Short Story

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Ernest Hemmingway, A very short story The story: „ A very short story“, written by Ernest Hemmingway deals about a relationship from a soldier to a Italian nurse. It starts in Italy, where the main character, an American soldier got injured. The soldier was sent there because of a war. He gets healthcare by a nurse, called Luz, on a hospital. After some time they develop feelings for each other. These feelings are so strong, that they want to get married. They can't get married in Italy, because they don't have birth certifactes, they decide to go back to America as soon as he has a job there. After the war ends, he goes back to America to search for employment. He works all the time to provide money for her and want her to get to him as fast as possible. But a short time after he is in America again, she gets attached to an Italian major and wants to marry him instead of the American soldier. She writes him a letter, in which she explains that their relationship was only a „boy and girl“ relationship, and that she thinks that that wasn't real love. At the end, the soldier contracts gonorrhea by a sales woman. The point of view of the narrator is omniscient because he always knows the thoughts of the main characters in the story. The main character, the American soldier appels to be very shy, because he doesn't persuade her to come with him. He is also the stereotype of an ordinary soldier. He [HALF] has no special rank, and behaves like he got values, like being loyal to women. But I can also understand the behaviour from him at the end of the story. He wants to take his mind off the past, and also find a new love maybe. His ex-girlfriend, Luz, doesn't act heavily different, she seemed to have values at first. They planned to wed each other ecclesiastical. But in the tragic end she also loses this values, mainly because of the war. The story of the two begins
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