Essay on Hemingway's "A Day's Wait"
In two paragraphs of Ernest Hemmingway’s “A Day’s Wait”, a first person narrator recalls the events of a hunt to an unknown character. It was an icy day and he had trouble getting the quail, but finally he killed a couple. The passage uses the diction and imagery to show that life is tricky and ultimately pointless. The first sentence describes in length that everything is covered with ice.