In Another Country” “Was the major brave? Why do you think so? (Ernest Hemingway)

On the question of whether major brave to answer definitely not. Maybe in war he was brave, but in his life he was helpless.

The story "In another country" refers to the initial period of Ernest Hemingway. A young American serving in the Italian army during the First world war, goes after the injured to the hospital and met with fellow sufferers. Among his new companions turns out to be major. Then the hero discovers that the major suddenly from pneumonia when he died his wife, whom he married only after it was finally declared unfit for military service. The major is sure that people should not marry: "If man is destined to lose, he don't have to put it on the map. He needs to find something that you can't lose." Search the fact that you can't lose, even if it seems hopeless, is the main idea of this story.

The motif of helplessness in the face of cruel fate, in front of the Rock shown in the story "In another country". Hopelessness and bitterness filled in this story the cry of the soul of the Italian major, who lost his beloved wife when he claims that man ought not to marry. The fate of major shows that man lives in a world of cruelty, he was alone and defenseless, his mental connection with other people, even with those you love the most fragile and fragile.