ion of girls and relationships inevitably leads to a foreboding of the future. " 'Once a man's married he's absolutely bitched,' Bill went on. 'He hasn't got anything more. Nothing. Not a damn thing. He's done for...'" (Hemingway 122). Nick quietly agrees with Bill's sentiments, but he still longs for Marge. The pleasant memory of the past is stalled by the fear of what the future could hold for his relationship with Marge. The alcohol, in this case, serves to numb the collision between the hopeful past and the hopeless future. The effects of the alcohol leave Nick free of his uncomfortable fears for a while: "None of it was important now" (Hemingway 125). After experiencing this heartbreak in his youth, a little alcohol is enough to clear the trepidation from Nick's mind.
             "Cross-Country Snow" presents Nick Adams working through a fear of responsibility, again w
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