A canary for one
A canary for one.
At first I would like to speak about the author. Hemingway was born and raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After living high school he worked for a few months as a reporter. He was seriously wounded and returned home within the year. In 1922 Hemingway married Hadley Richardson. He travelled a lot and used his experience in his works. It is important to note that Ernest Hemingway played a major role in defining 20th century American literature.
And regarding the short story..
“A canary for one” is the story of three people on a journey across Europe. The setting is a compartment of the train. A married couple shares a compartment with a woman who will be visiting her daughter. She is taking the daughter a canary. They are all Americans living in Europe and have a conversation.
The main character of the story is the American lady. She is a middle-aged woman. The author doesn’t even mention her name as it’s unnecessary. In the whole story there are no names at all. What we know of her-she is a bit deaf and has a daughter. No mentions her husband. So we may guess for the time being she has no husband at all, or his existence is so unimportant for her. This is the first sigh of her loneliness.
The older woman initiates and then dominates the conversation. What concerns her daughter, it’s well-known that she was madly in love with a Swiss fellow, but it turned out they parted. No explanations, just a fact. The American lady kept on saying that American men make the best husbands. It is possible that the mother didn’t let her daughter marry her Swiss boyfriend, as he belonged to the “wrong” nationality, not the American. So she took the canary for her daughter as a present, not because the girl likes canaries but cause her mother “always loved birds”. The story focuses on the American lady and her daughter’s frustrated romance. She is insensitive, person who had succeeded in breaking off her daughter’s engagement to a Swiss engineer of good family. The
At first I would like to speak about the author. Hemingway was born and raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After living high school he worked for a few months as a reporter. He was seriously wounded and returned home within the year. In 1922 Hemingway married Hadley Richardson. He travelled a lot and used his experience in his works. It is important to note that Ernest Hemingway played a major role in defining 20th century American literature.
And regarding the short story..
“A canary for one” is the story of three people on a journey across Europe. The setting is a compartment of the train. A married couple shares a compartment with a woman who will be visiting her daughter. She is taking the daughter a canary. They are all Americans living in Europe and have a conversation.
The main character of the story is the American lady. She is a middle-aged woman. The author doesn’t even mention her name as it’s unnecessary. In the whole story there are no names at all. What we know of her-she is a bit deaf and has a daughter. No mentions her husband. So we may guess for the time being she has no husband at all, or his existence is so unimportant for her. This is the first sigh of her loneliness.
The older woman initiates and then dominates the conversation. What concerns her daughter, it’s well-known that she was madly in love with a Swiss fellow, but it turned out they parted. No explanations, just a fact. The American lady kept on saying that American men make the best husbands. It is possible that the mother didn’t let her daughter marry her Swiss boyfriend, as he belonged to the “wrong” nationality, not the American. So she took the canary for her daughter as a present, not because the girl likes canaries but cause her mother “always loved birds”. The story focuses on the American lady and her daughter’s frustrated romance. She is insensitive, person who had succeeded in breaking off her daughter’s engagement to a Swiss engineer of good family. The