A Day's Wait
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"A Day's Wait" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway
published in his 1933 short story collection The Snows of Kilimanjaro
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The story focuses on a nine-year old boy and his father that calls him Schatz (German, meaning darling). When the boy gets the flu, his temperature rises to 102 degrees. He is very quiet and depressed, finally asking when he will die; he had thought that a 102 degree temperature was 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 in scales, the boy slowly relaxes, and the next day, "he cried very easily at little things that were of no importance."
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economic and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the...
published in his 1933 short story collection The Snows of Kilimanjaro
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (book)
The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by Ernest Hemingway, published in 1961. The title story is sometimes considered the best story Hemingway ever wrote...
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The story focuses on a nine-year old boy and his father that calls him Schatz (German, meaning darling). When the boy gets the flu, his temperature rises to 102 degrees. He is very quiet and depressed, finally asking when he will die; he had thought that a 102 degree temperature was 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 in scales, the boy slowly relaxes, and the next day, "he cried very easily at little things that were of no importance."