This short story includes a stream-of-consciousness sequence in which the protagonist recalls the gift of morphine to a comrade who disemboweled by a German stick bomb. The protagonist's wife, Helen, is awoken by a crying hyena at the end of this story, which opens with a description of a frozen animal upon the title summit. His wife complains that nothing like this would have happened in Paris and refuses to consider cutting off his leg or shooting her husband. For 10 points--name this Ernest Hemingway story about a writer dying of gangrene while on safari.
This short story includes a stream-of-consciousness sequence in which the protagonist recalls the gift of morphine to a comrade who disemboweled by a German stick bomb. The protagonist's wife, Helen, is awoken by a crying hyena at the end of this story, which opens with a description of a frozen animal upon the title summit. His wife complains that nothing like this would have happened in Paris and refuses to consider cutting off his leg or shooting her husband. For 10 points--name this Ernest Hemingway story about a writer dying of gangrene while on safari.
This short story includes a stream-of-consciousness sequence in which the protagonist recalls the gift of morphine to a comrade who disemboweled by a German stick bomb.