After the Storm (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ernest Hemingway
- First Published: 1932
- Type of Plot: Realism
- Time of Work: The late 1920's or early 1930's
- Setting: The Florida Keys
- Principal Characters: The narrator
- Genres: Realism, Short fiction
- Subjects: Death or dying, Storms, Theft, Shipwrecks, Animals, dangerous
- Locales: Florida
The Story
The story opens with two men fighting over very little, something that has to do with making punch. One man is getting the better of the other by choking him. This man, however, manages to get his knife out, and he slashes the arm muscles of his attacker, after which he leaves the bar where the fight has taken place. He gets into his skiff, which is full of water from a recent storm, bails it out, and sails toward the open sea.
First he sees a three-masted ship that has sunk during the storm. He can see the stumps of the ship's spars sticking out of the water,...
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