"Cross-Country Snow"

 

 

 

 

Critical Sources:

  • Benson, Jackson J., ed. The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: Critical Essays. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1975.
  • Moreland, Kim. "'The Bill Always Came': Hemingway's Use of the Epiphany in 'Cross-Country Snow.'" Hemingway Review 16.1 (Fall 1996): 108-13. Available from EBSCOhost.
  • Reynolds, Michael S., ed. Critical Essays on Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1983.
  • Smith, Paul. A Reader's Guide to the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1989.
  

Discussion starters

Many critics compare this story with "The Three-Day Blow" and suggest that this one, though written later, represents an earlier Nick than "Blow" does? Why would a reader think this?

Are Nick and Helen married in this story?

Do you agree with Moreland's claim that "Hemingway's depiction of the woodcutters is instrumental in calling forth the epiphany at the end of the narrative"?

Created by Stan Galloway 11 December 1997. Last updated 26 April 2001.