An Alpine Idyll (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ernest Hemingway
- First Published: 1927
- Type of Plot: Realism
- Time of Work: The early 1920's
- Setting: The Austrian Tyrol
- Principal Characters: Nick Adams, John, Austrian innkeeper, Sexton, Olz
- Genres: Realism, Short fiction
- Subjects: Friendship, Comedy, Peasantry or peasants, Skis or skiing, Austrian Tirol
- Locales: Austria
The Story
“An Alpine Idyll” belongs at the end of the Nick Adams cycle of stories. A now mature Nick has come down from a month's skiing in the mountains with a friend, John. They witness a peasant burying his wife and the reader experiences an epiphanic moment of recognition shared with Nick, though not with his friend.
The story opens in the early morning with two young men carrying their skis as they are climbing down from the mountains into the valley. They pass a churchyard just as a burial is ending. The narrator, who remains unnamed throughout the story but...
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