Yesterday, we outlined elements of Hemingway's style. Today, we closely examined a section of dialogue and discussed how the dialogue carries the narrative in the absence of any explanation of the characters' thoughts and motives. Recalling Hemingway's iceberg theory of writing, ie. 7/8 of what happens occurs below the surface, Olivia worked on implying the psychological narrative from the dialogue itself. We further examined the contrast between the main character's initial romanticized notion of war and the reality of war. Last, I pointed out the recurring image and symbolism of rain in the novel. Olivia examined language in the first chapters and provided a good explanation of the rain symbol based on the unadorned physical descriptions of the Italian front during fall and winter. For homework, I assigned reading the next 3 chapters.