# Short Fiction — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for Short Fiction by Ernest Hemingway.

- [A Divine Gesture](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/a-divine-gesture.md): In a surreal garden, the Great Lord God searches for Adam and Eve but finds only talking bathtubs, boot jacks, and flower pots. After a bathtub claims Eve will return at four, God has the angel Gabriel drain it as a less
- [Up in Michigan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/up-in-michigan.md): Liz Coates, a young woman working for the Smiths in the small town of Hortons Bay, develops a deep infatuation with Jim Gilmore, the local blacksmith. Jim, however, remains largely oblivious to her feelings. After a deer
- [In Our Time](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/in-our-time.md): A collection of vignettes and stories exploring the aftermath of war, masculinity, and the search for meaning in a fragmented world.
- [Chapter I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/chapter-i.md): The chapter describes a night march of a drunken battery towards Champagne. The narrator, a kitchen corporal, recalls the absurdity of the adjutant's concern about the kitchen fire being observed despite being far from t
- [Indian Camp](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/indian-camp.md): Nick Adams accompanies his father, a doctor, to an Indian camp where his father performs an emergency Caesarean section on a young Indian woman. After the successful delivery, they discover that the woman's husband has c

> 65 more chapter companions — [open a free preview](https://www.betterreads.dev/reader?bookId=short_fiction_15_se_1368kb&preview=1) to unlock the rest.

- [Chapter II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/chapter-ii.md)
- [The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/the-doctor-and-the-doctor-s-wife.md)
- [Chapter III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/chapter-iii.md)
- [The End of Something](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/the-end-of-something.md)
- [Chapter IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/chapter-iv.md)
- [The Three Day Blow](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/the-three-day-blow.md)
- [Chapter V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/chapter-v.md)
- [The Battler](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/the-battler.md)
- [Chapter VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/chapter-vi.md)
- [A Very Short Story](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/a-very-short-story.md)
- [Chapter VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/chapter-vii.md)
- [Soldier's Home](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/soldier-s-home.md)
- [Chapter VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/chapter-viii.md)
- [The Revolutionist](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/the-revolutionist.md)
- [Chapter IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/chapter-ix.md)
- [Mr. and Mrs. Elliot](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/mr-and-mrs-elliot.md)
- [Chapter X](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/chapter-x.md)
- [Cat in the Rain](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/cat-in-the-rain.md)
- [Chapter XI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/chapter-xi.md)
- [Out of Season](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/out-of-season.md)
- [Chapter XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/chapter-xii.md)
- [Cross Country Snow](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/cross-country-snow.md)
- [Chapter XIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/chapter-xiii.md)
- [My Old Man](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/my-old-man.md)
- [Chapter XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/chapter-xiv.md)
- [Big Two-Hearted River Part I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/big-two-hearted-river-part-i.md)
- [Chapter XV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/chapter-xv.md)
- [Big Two-Hearted River Part II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/big-two-hearted-river-part-ii.md)
- [L’Envoi](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/l-envoi.md)
- [The Torrents of Spring](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/the-torrents-of-spring.md)
- [Red and Black Laughter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/red-and-black-laughter.md)
- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/i.md)
- [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/ii.md)
- [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/iii.md)
- [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/iv.md)
- [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/v.md)
- [The Struggle for Life](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/the-struggle-for-life.md)
- [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/vi.md)
- [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/vii.md)
- [VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/viii.md)
- [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/ix.md)
- [X](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/x.md)
- [Men in War and the Death of Society](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/men-in-war-and-the-death-of-society.md)
- [Chapter XI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/xi.md)
- [XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/xii.md)
- [The Passing of a Great Race and the Making and Marring of Americans](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/the-passing-of-a-great-race-and-the-making-and-marring-of-americans.md)
- [XIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/xiii.md)
- [XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/xiv.md)
- [XV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/xv.md)
- [Night in Petoskey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/xvi.md)
- [Author's Final Note to the Reader](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/author-s-final-note-to-the-reader.md)
- [The Undefeated](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/the-undefeated.md)
- [In Another Country](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/in-another-country.md)
- [Hills Like White Elephants](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/hills-like-white-elephants.md)
- [The Killers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/the-killers.md)
- [Che Ti Dice La Patria?](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/che-ti-dice-la-patria.md)
- [Fifty Grand](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/fifty-grand.md)
- [A Simple Enquiry](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/a-simple-enquiry.md)
- [Ten Indians](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/ten-indians.md)
- [A Canary for One](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/a-canary-for-one.md)
- [An Alpine Idyll](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/an-alpine-idyll.md)
- [A Pursuit Race](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/a-pursuit-race.md)
- [Today Is Friday](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/today-is-friday.md)
- [Banal Story](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/banal-story.md)
- [Now I Lay Me](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/now-i-lay-me.md)

HTML index: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters