in our time

In Our Time The Nick Adams stories were my favorite of the collection because I got to know Nick through the reading. I started to understand Nick and I could anticipate the actions and feelings that he was feeling. I am not sure if this is because I became familiar with Nick or because I have done many of the things Nick has done and was able to understand what he was doing. "Big Two-Hearted …

…the writing at the same time and have had to reread several times. "The Three-Day Blow" offered an interesting irony to the title "In Our Time", but maybe it is just my jaded view of the television. Nick and Bill sit and discuss intelligently on various topics like books and baseball, but I fear this sophisticated discourse is becoming rare in "our" time of cable television which has done much to dry up serious dialogue.