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The Three-Day Blow (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)

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The Story

“The Three-Day Blow” has little external action. The story focuses on the conversation of Nick and his friend Bill as they take refuge from an autumn storm in the cottage of Bill's father. The two close friends get drunk on whiskey belonging to Bill's father and speak of common interests: baseball, fishing, favorite books and writers, their fathers, and, as the whiskey takes effect, the recent breakup of Nick's relationship with a girl named Marge. The most important action, however, occurs inside the mind of Nick Adams.

The story begins as Nick walks...

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