y sagged the bunk" (18). The image of the Indian father's blood pooling up in the impression his body makes in his bed is revolting. Hemmingway includes the death as a suicide to emphasize the horror of the end of life; any other type of death would be less horrible. Hemmingway uses the birth and the death in the short story to produce a microcosm of life and portray it as full of horror.
             Hemmingway presents Uncle George as the worst way to cope with the horror o
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