The first two paragraphs of Ernest Hemingway's In Another Country serve as an interesting introduction to this short story. Hemingway's simple style of writing is shown here, where the audience is never told exactly what is going on, but are rather left to make their own inferences. In the first line of the story we are told about a war, Hemingway does not say which war it is, but by stating the fact that the men are in Milan the reader is left to figure it out on his own. Hemingway also does not tell the reader who "we all" is, in the beginning of the second paragraph which is a technique that intices the reader to continue reading in order to find out who the story is about and why, whoever it is, has to be at the hospital every afternoon. The first two paragraphs serve as a good introduction because they set the scene, but do not give away too much of the story. The reader is made aware of the fact that it is fall, in Milan. Hemingway's style in the first paragraph is very straight forward with regards to the scenery, yet he adiquatly describes the scene so that the reader can picture exactly what the scenery is like. Hemingway describes the fur of the foxes as "snow powdered" and the deer as "stiff", "heavy" and "empty". The style here is direct and fairly simplistic; Hemingway does not use long convoluted sentences, but rather gets to the point. The last sentence in the first paragraph is a perfect example of Hemingway's 'matter of fact' style of writing – "It was a cold fall and the wind came down from the mountains."
             The second paragraph continues in Hemingway's simple style of writing. The route to the hospital is described in a way that enables the reader to visualize exactly what it would look like. Hemingway pays attention to detail, for example the description of the woman selling chestnuts, yet this deta...