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At the opening of this chapter, in the sentence beginning, \"There
was no wind...,\" Hemingway gives us still another typical Hemingway
description: a single sentence almost 180 words long, detailing the
sights and smells of the cave and contrasting them with the sights and
smells of the night outside the cave. Notice again the preponderance
of nouns.
Jordan finds from Rafael that in the preceding tense scene the
band had both expected and wanted him to kill Pablo.
And then Pablo returns- full of friendliness and welcome! You may
remember that Jordan had warned himself at the end of Chapter 1 to
be wary if Pablo ever became friendly.
The chapter concludes with Pablo delivering a maudlin, drunken
soliloquy to one of the horses. This is a good opportunity for you
to examine your opinion of Pablo. Is he more to be despised or to be
pitied? Why?
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