The Silver Linings Playbook Chapter 4

The Worst Ending conceivableKnowing that Nikki does a big social unit on Hemingway constantlyy year, I investigate for one of Hemingways better novels. One with a love story if possible, because I unfeignedly need to study love so I potbelly be a better husband when Nikki comes back, I carry Mom.When Mom returns from the library, she says that the librarian claims A word of farewell to Arms is Hemingways best love story. So I eagerly crack collect the book and can feel myself acquiring smarter as I turn the low gear few pages.As I read, I look for quotable lines so I can drop completeledge the adjoining time Nikki and I are step to the fore with her literary friends so I can say to that glasses-wearing Phillip, Would an illiterate buffoon know this line? And then I pass on drop some Hemingway, real suave. exactly the novel is nothing only if a trick.The whole time, you root for the narrator to go bad the war and then for him to have a nice life with Catherine Barkl ey. He does dwell all sorts of dangers lock in getting blown up and finally escapes to Switzerland with the pregnant Catherine, whom he loves so much. They live in the mountains for a time, in love and living a good life.Hemingway should have ended there, because that was the specie lining these people deserved after struggling to survive the gloomy war. but no.Instead he thinks up the worst ending imaginable Hemingway has Catherine come across from hemorrhaging after their child is stillborn. It is the most torturing ending I have ever so experienced and probably will ever experience in literature, movies, or even television.I am crying so hard at the end, partly for the characters, yes, but also because Nikki actually teaches this book to children. I cannot imagine why anyone would want to expose impressionable teenagers to such a shocking ending. Why not just publish high school students that their struggle to remediate themselves is all for nothing?I have to admit that for the first time since asunder time began, I am disgusted at Nikki for teaching such pessimism in her classroom. I will not be quoting Hemingway anytime soon, nor will I ever read another one of his books. And if he were still alive, I would write him a letter right now and threaten to muzzle him dead with my bare hands just for being so glum. No applaud he put a blast to his head, like it says in the introductory essay.