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Hemingway, who usually avoids direct exposition of the theme and the character, often relies heavily on the dialogue between his characters. What role does the dialogue play in his fiction? Choose two stories you have read in class for discussion. As a Nobel Prize winner for literature, Hemingway is good at delivering significant meaning with simple language. His deceptively simple and effective style has been an inspiration of younger writers. His concise dialogue, especially, impresses readers. The two short stories In Another Country and Hills Like White Elephant can best serve as two examples to unveil the characters through simple dialogue. In the short story In Another Country, Hemingway tries to tell readers incurable wound and ubiquitous death caused by war and the cold heroes who were confronted with the disaster and death with dignity, bravery, and endurance. The story was set in Italy, an alien country for the narrator. The surrounding implied destruction and damages of modern wars, where the soldiers were also victims, even the main character, a major and the narrator, an American. The narrator, a football fan, had a wound in his knee and had to have a machine help bend the knee and make it move. And the Italian major, who had been a fencer before, had a wound in his hand, which suggested that he could never become a fencer any more. However, in a dialogue between him and the doctor, he could even make light of his irreversible wound. By asking the doctor And will I too play football, captain doctor?, the major showed his grace under pressure. He could still talk about his serious wound jokingly. And now we can also trace the character of the major in the following dialogue. The major asked, “A wound? An industrial accident, the doctor said. Very interesting, very interesting, the major said, and handed it back to the doctor. You have confidence? No, said the major. In the short dialogue, the major still showed his grace by saying interesting, interesti