The Battler (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ernest Hemingway
- First Published: 1925
- Type of Plot: Vignette
- Time of Work: The 1910's
- Setting: Michigan
- Principal Characters: Nick Adams, Ad (Adolph) Francis, Bugs, A railroad brakeman
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Friendship, Incest, Mental illness, Tramps or hoboes, Boxing, Railroads
- Locales: Michigan
The Story
Nick Adams has been riding the rails in Michigan. Essentially innocent and by his own admission not tough, he falls for the ploy of a railroad brakeman on the freight train on which he has hitched a ride. The brakeman spies Nick and tells him to come close because he has something for him. The something that the brakeman has for Nick is a hefty punch that catapults him off the moving train to the earth below. Nursing a black eye, Nick washes up in a nearby tamarack swamp, then makes his way along the roadbed toward Mancelona, some three or four miles distant. As he...
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