What Is Ernest Hemingway Therapy

Liam Carr
Mr. Avery
English III
10/6/14
Ernest Hemingway: In Another Country
Hemingway, Ernest. Men without Women. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1927. Print. In In Another Country by Ernest Hemingway an unnamed wounded war veteran in Milan Italy is attempting an untested new therapy method and getting to know some of the other soldiers going through similar therapy. The story takes place in fall in Milan Italy during a war. The main character is a wounded war veteran. The narrator visits a hospital to get therapy using “the machines” (Hemingway 1). The main character arrives, possibly for the first time, and the doctor diagnoses his and hooks him up to a machine that is supposed to help his leg, which “dropped straight from the knee to the

The machine was supposed to “bend his knee and make it move ar riding a tricycle” (Hemingway 1). While he is there he meets a major who had an injury that caused his hand to become smaller than normal. The doctor, who is treating them, promises that they will be fully recovered soon. The major doubts the power of the machines from the start. The main character meets four other wounded veterans who are all receiving similar therapy. They compare medals that they earned during the war and eventually drift apart. As time went on the main character began to lose hope that the machines would help him recover. During his therapy sessions the main character spent much of the time talking to the major. One day the major asks what the main character is going to do after the war is over. The main character says that he is going to go back to the states and get married. This triggers sudden violent shouts of protest from the major about how “a man must not marry” (Hemingway 3), and how he shouldn’t grow too attached to things because they would eventually, tragically be

He drops hints that the machines are not what they claim to be and that the major had recently had a major tragedy in the end scenes of the story. The main character says that “there was a time when none of us believed in the machines” (Hemingway 3) and that they were the ones who “were to prove them” (Hemingway 3). The machines were a new untested invention that promised to work miracles with almost any kind of injury. While all of the patients wanted to believe that they would work they all expressed their doubts and lost hope at one point or another. Another example of foreshadowing was the major’s comments about how “a man must not marry” (Hemingway 3). He says “if he is to lose everything he should not put himself in a position to lose that” (Hemingway 3). This suggests that recently because of a marriage the major had just experienced some major loss. Soon after that he explains that he explains that his wife had just