Characters
Summary
Long-Question
1. Discuss' The Three Day blow' as a
dramatic story.
Short- Questions
1. What is the relationship between the
three day blow and nick's mental condition?
2. What did nick and Bill talk about?
3. What is the Marge business? How is
that related with Nick’s life?
4. How do Nick and Bill try to be practical?
5. Describe the last or seventh scene of
the dramatic story “The Three Day Blow”.
12. The Three Day Blow
Ernest Hemingway
Characters
Nick : Marjorie's boy friend
Bill : Nick's friend
Marjorie : left Nick
Mother : Marjorie's mother
Fathers : Nick and Bill's father
Autumn season : story occur
Bill's house, kitchen, garden
Symbols
The cold wind : ended love affair
The rain : Nick's crying for his separation
Hard wind/storm : Nick's mental disturbance
Burning fire : comfort and consolation to Nick
Blowing hard to slow : Nick's problem decrease
Seven Scenes : dramatic story
Summary
It was autumn season. The biting cold wind was blowing hard. The apples had been picked up. Nick was in a great tension so he went Bill's house. When Nick reached Bill's house, Bill came out to welcome him. They stood outside the house and looked the scene for a while. Then they went into the house and sat near the burning fire. After sometime they began to drink. They talked about baseball, their favourite writers, their books, their fathers, hunting and fishing. Bill's father allowed him to drink from an open bottle but Nick's father never allowed him to drink.
The fire was burning low so Nick went to back porch for some firewood. While coming back a log, nick dropped a pan of apricots off from the kitchen table. Then he collected the apricots and put some water into the pan. Bill helped him to put the log into the hearth. Bill began to search for alcohol and Nick went to the kitchen to bring some water to mix with the alcohol. In the kitchen he saw a mirror on the wall and smiled, winked at the image. As he came back with water, they began to drink again.
The Bill said it was good that Marjorie left Nick. Nick kept quiet and thought about Marjorie. Bill went on talking. He said that it was good for Nick that Marjorie left him. Her family was very bad. Her mother was mean. Her mother said that Marjorie and nick were engaged although they were not. She told Marjorie every time what to do and what not to do. Nick had to work hard to earn but his money spent on dinner and drinks. They were not allowed to stay and enjoy together, if Nick had married her. Now nick realized that their love ended suddenly as the three day blow. He also thought that everything on the earth is changeable and so happened to his love. Bill consoled him and felt light. Then he agreed to go hunting with Bill. When they came outside, the wind was blowing slowly, and listened their fathers' gun firing.
Long-Question
1. Discuss' The Three Day blow' as a dramatic story.
‘The Three Day Blow’ is a dramatic story by the most influential author Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 1961). He had won the Nobel Prize in 1954 for his book “The Old Man and the Sea” (1952). Nick is the main character of the story. There is the other character named as Bill who was the sincere friend of Nick.
The rain stopped as Nick walked into the road that went up through the orchard. But the fall wind was blowing. The road came to the orchard on to the top of the hill. There was a cottage which belongs to Bill and his father. Nick went to the cottage. Bill came out and welcomed him and let him inside the room.
Bill and Nick viewed the natural beauty. They talked about the weather and the blowing wind. Bill said that the wind would blow like that for three days. They went inside the cottage. They drank wine sitting by the fire. They talked about the games especially the baseball game, books, swimming, and their fathers. Once Nick fell in love with girl named Marge (Marjorie). They had planned to marry also but unfortunately their relationship broke down because of the bad attitude of her mother who disliked Nick and spread rumors that Nick had already got engaged. Perhaps they would never see each other again. Nostalgias made Nick sad and upset and felt isolated.
But again he thought that what had happened in the past might have been good. This feeling made him happy. Bill and Nick started to talk as previously. Carrying guns they went out for hunting delightfully.
Short- Questions
1. What is the relationship between the three day blow and nick's mental condition?
There is a clear similarity
between the title “The Three Day Blow” and the mental misery Nick goes through.
The movements start from his mental conflict, grow with suffering and end with
a sense of reconciliation.
When a storm comes, everything in nature is taken by surprise and before giving
enough time a lot of damage is done. Similarly, Nick and Marjorie quarrel and
before they can handle the situation, they get separated. It disturbs Nick
mentally. On the second day of storm, when the leaves of the tree are blown
away, it looks pathetic. The condition of Nick is also same. He suffers a lot
due to his separation from Marjorie, who is blown away like a leaf in the storm
from Nick’s life. The suffering goes as the time passes. On the third day, when
the storm is over, there comes a new chance for new creation in the nature.
Similarly, at the last of the story we find Nick hopeful about his reunion with
his beloved. This sense gives him mental peace.
2. What did nick and Bill talk about?
Nick and bill talked about many things during their drinking time. They talked about beauties of autumn season, good looks garden, drinks, their father's attitudes, and baseball, their favorite's writers and books, hunting and fishing. They talked about Marjorie's business and Bill consoled Nick.
3. What is the Marge business? How is that related with Nick’s life?
Marge is the actress of the story who is off stage character. Her business is the fundamental subject of this story. Most of the story based on her. Nick loves her very much but unfortunately he can’t manage money to make her family happy. And Bill doesn’t like his engaged because of her wicked mother. She is so mean that she always guides her, what to do and what not to do, as a child to her daughter. Bill thinks that their friendship will definitely break down, if he marries her.
4. How do Nick and Bill try to be practical?
They both became matured person because both talked of their future seriously. When Nick was coming in with the log through the kitchen, in passing he knocked a pan off the kitchen table. He laid the log down and picked up the pan and its contents. He put them back in their places. Bill to be practical went to help Nick put the log in fire. Even in drunkard mood they talked about the Marge. Nick determined never to talk about it again. So we can said that Nick and Bill now trying to be practical, matured and serious of their lives.
5. Describe the last or seventh scene of the dramatic story “The Three
Day Blow”.
In the seventh and the last scene, Nick looks a comforted person. He has succeeded in getting over the suffering of separation. He became more practical than before. He feels comfortable; calm and happy. Though the Marge business is not completely out of his mind but it does not occupy his mind as tensely as it did before. It is just another of thoughts and made up mind to do something. In this very scene, they take guns and go out on hunting.
6. The story is presented in a sequence of approximately seven scenes.
Can you find them?
The seven scenes excluding the
opening and exposition could be as following
Scene 1: Nick and Bill meet outside the cottage.
Scene 2: They sit near fire drinking and talking
Scene 3: Nick brings a chunk through the kitchen
Scene 4: They put the large piece on the fire
Scene 5: Nick looks at the mirror while coming with water from kitchen
Scene 6: They again sit near fire, drink and talk about Marjorie (Nick’s Beloved)
Scene 7: They come out of cottage for hunting with their shotguns.
7. Describe “The Three Day Blow” as a dramatic story.
“The Three Day Blow” can be called a
dramatic story for a couple of reasons. They are the maximum of use of dialogues
and the scenic division in the story. Actually the elements like plot,
character, setting and theme are shared by other genres of literature as well.
We can find the use of dialogues and actions are minimal in fictions. They rely
on narrations most of the time. Therefore the story “The Three Day Blow” by
Ernest Hemingway seems quite close to a drama.
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