In Another Country By Hemingway

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hospital every afternoon.

Another theme that comes out in the story is the discrimination that the American soldier faced. The narrator, and the protagonist, is an American soldier who was in the hospital due to the problem with his leg. There he was in contact with other people who shared similar experiences with him, due to their injuries and wounds but yet they differed a lot. For everybody he still was a foreigner and we figured that out from the way they named him. We are not told his name but we know him as the "American". This is a kind of discrimination and that is even clearer to us at the point where everybody realized that the medals he gained were not because he really deserved them, but because he was American. That made him feel like an outsider because the other's behavior toward him changed, after they had read the citations. They knew that he hadn't succeeded in the way they did. At that time he felt closer with a boy that didn't have any medals, and who was only ...

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the major faced the loss of his wife, "whom he had not married until he was definitely invalided out of the war" (272). The effects that fear of loss had on him we can see throughout the conversation with the American soldier about the future. He became very vulnerable at the point when the American boy said that he wants to go back to the States and get married. He believed that by getting married one is putting him/herself in a position of eventual loss. "He can not marry. He cannot marry," he said angrily. "If he is to lose everything, he should not place himself in a position to lose that. He should not place himself in a position to lose. He should find things he cannot lose" (271) ...

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