The protagonist of this story declares, "I've got a right to eat this kind of stuff, if I'm willing to carry it" to his empty surroundings while cooking beans and spaghetti, but "[does] not speak again" because his "voice sound[s] strange."
The protagonist of this story declares, "I've got a right to eat this kind of stuff, if I'm willing to carry it" to his empty surroundings while cooking beans and spaghetti, but "[does] not speak again" because his "voice sound[s] strange." Shortly afterward, that protagonist laughs when the coffee he boils according to the instructions of his dead friend Hopkins turns out to be bitter. At the end of this story, the protagonist considers wading into a swamp before deciding it is a "tragic adventure" and there are "plenty of days coming" for that. This story is set in burnt-down woodlands where all the grasshoppers have adapted by turning black. The protagonist of this story carries a bottle full of grasshoppers with him in its (*) second half, which is separated from its first half by an italicized chapter about the hanging of Sam Cardinella. This story concerns a probable victim of shell-shock who copes by catching trout in the backwoods of Michigan. For 10 points, name this final story from In Our Time, an Ernest Hemingway story about Nick Adams' fishing trip on the Black.
The protagonist of this story declares, "I've got a right to eat this kind of stuff, if I'm willing to carry it" to his empty surroundings while cooking beans and spaghetti, but "[does] not speak again" because his "voice sound[s] strange."
“{Big Two-Hearted River}”