An Alpine Idyll | Critical Discussion
In this story, Nick and John come off the mountain and return to “normal” society, collecting their mail and becoming interested in the affairs of others again. Because the weather was becoming warmer, they had no choice but to end their skiing expedition and were therefore compelled to reenter the world of human interaction. That world is filled with death, tragedy, and what appears to be gross insensitivity. The peasant’s use of his dead wife’s corpse to hold his lantern seems inhuman to the inn-keeper and the priest, but the cleric’s anger...
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