A Simple Enquiry
"A Simple Enquiry" is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway.[1] It was published in 1927 in the collection Men Without Women.[2][3]
Synopsis
Three Italian soldiers are snowbound. The senior soldier, the Major, calls his 19-year-old orderly into his room and questions him about his personal life, specifically whether the orderly had ever loved a woman. The Major appears to be propositioning the orderly; when his homosexual advances are effectively rebuffed he dismisses the orderly from the room, with the understanding that he will not press the issue, but while still questioning whether the orderly was telling the truth. His adjutant is the ambiguous witness.
Characters
- The major
- Tonani, an adjutant
- Pinin, the major's orderly
gollark: But a lot of it is environmental, and if you have 73 children they probably won't all get the necessary attention.
gollark: You could say that about most people.
gollark: Or, well, very genetic.
gollark: Also, <@341618941317349376>, just because intelligence is somewhat *heritable*, doesn't mean it's *genetic*.
gollark: <@!356107472269869058> Some offense, but who's going to use a really good text compression algorithm if there's only one closed-source implementation of it?
References
- Meyers, Jeffrey. Ernest Hemingway: The Critical Heritage (Psychology Press, 1997), p. 112.
- Nolan, Charles J. (1995-03-22). "Hemingway's Complicated "Enquiry" in 'Men without Women.'". Studies in Short Fiction. 32 (2): 217. ISSN 0039-3789.
- Hemingway, Ernest (2014-05-22). Men Without Women. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9781476770178.
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