ce Nick becomes conscious of this incapability to have power over the situation, he becomes uncomfortable despite the fact that he does not take action. The woman's cries heightens his concern regarding his ineffectiveness until he pleads, "Oh, Daddy, can't you give her something to make her stop screaming?" Nick's evident apprehension over the truth that he could not be in command of this facet of his existence is fascinating when someone discovers that Hemingway did not present any elucidation for this dilemma.
             In the book, A Farewell to Arms, Frederic Henry comes across an analogous circumstance. At the closing stages of the volume, while Catherine is agonizing, Frederic becomes conscious that fate was in charge of his entire existence; he could not have power over whether Catherine survived or perished. Baffled, troubled by this truth, he argued with himself,
             So now, they got her in the end. You never got away with anything. Get away hell! It would have been the same if we had been married fifty times. And what she should die? She won't die. People don't die at childbirth nowadays. That was what all husband thought. Yes, but what if she should die? She won't die. She's just having a bad time. The initial labor is usually protracted. She's only having a bad time. Afterward we'd say what a bad time and Catherine would say it wasn't really so bad. But what if she should die? She can't die. Yes, but what if she should die? She can't, I tell you. Don't be a fool. It's just a bad time. It's just nature giving her hell.
             It was at this instant that Hemingway commenced to build up his last plot: A man cannot rely on destiny; he ought to attempt to be in charge of his existence and his death. Frederic's responses instantly became livelier, and he even established some relief in regulating Catherine's anesthetic. Even though he knew that the ga...