REVIEW

This is Prof. Schaub's Review Sheet. I will also hand this out in class:

Irony defined
discussion of difference between a narrator and character
Example: last line of "Indian Camp"
Irony as expression of a relation to social existence

Sarcasm by contrast is a bitter taunt, a cutting gibe

Hemingway's gal: to create "the sequence of motion and fact which made the emotion." Example: "They walked up" par.

As a result, Hemingway tried to create prose full of motion, which means verbs (action) and modification of verbs (adverbial phrases, clauses). Compare first lines of "Chapter II" and 1922 cable.

Discussion of "The Doctor and His Wife"
-- reader must judge for himself/herself the nature of the father and the mother, as well as Dick Bolton and the other Native Americans
-- Thesis statements tendered by members of class:

• father's morality comes into question
• story concerns both class and race
• Bolton's reason for impugning doctor
• trying to get out paying for medical care?
• resentment at (long ago) loss of trees and land to white man?

WWI was first modern war

• machine guns, tanks
• airplanes
• mustard gas
• attacks on civilian populations

Literary Response: relation between war experience and style

• animosity toward idealism, abstractions (honor, glory, etc.)
• desire to make language fres, concrete, "true"
• emphasis upon things, actualities
• diminshment or absence of all-knowing narrator
• stories begin in the middle of things
• lack of explanation, statements of cause
• theme of senselessness, not knowing
• emphasis on the fundamental, underlying instinctual life
• versus veneer of civilization
• tone of traumatized indifference, speaker inured to horror
• sense of compromise, of complicity
• use of irony