A Day's Wait

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"A Day's Wait" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway which appears in The Snows of Kilimanjaro, first printed in 1933.

[edit] Format of the Story

The story takes place in the course of one day and is only a few pages in length. It is narrated in first person by the father, but centers around the son.

[edit] Plot summary

The story focuses on a nine-year old boy named Schatz (term of endearment the father uses to address his son, which is a German term for affection) and his father. The boy gets the flu, and has a 102 degrees Fahrenheit temperature, and acts very strangely about it, much to the confusion of the father. In the end the boy asks when he will die, thinking that an 102 degree temperature will kill him because he heard in Europe (where Celsius is used) that one cannot live with a temperature over 44 degrees.The father then tells him that in america we use fareinheit, this then calms the boy and he and the father are now relaxed.

v • d • e Works by Ernest Hemingway Novels: The Torrents of Spring (1926)  · The Sun Also Rises (1926)  · A Farewell to Arms (1929)  · To Have and Have Not (1937)  · For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)  · Across the River and into the Trees (1950)  · The Old Man and the Sea (1952)  · Islands in the Stream (1970)  · The Garden of Eden (1986)  · Under Kilimanjaro (2005) Short stories: "Big Two-Hearted River" (1924) • "Soldier's Home" (1925) • "Cat in the Rain" (1925) • "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" (1926) • "A Canary for One" (1926) • "Hills Like White Elephants" (1927) • "The Killers" (1927) • "The Undefeated" (1927) • "A Day's Wait" (1933) • "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" (1936) • "The Capital of the World" (1936) • "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" (1936) • "The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio" (?) • "Adventures of a Young Man" (?) Short story collections: Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923)  · In Our Time (1925)  · Men Without Women (1927)  · Winner Take Nothing (1933)  · The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1936)  · The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938)  · The Essential Hemingway (1947)  · The Hemingway Reader (1953)  · The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War (1969)  · The Nick Adams Stories (1972)  · The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway (1987)  · The Collected Stories (1995) Plays: A Short Happy Life (1961)  · The Hemingway Hero (1967) Poetry: 88 Poems (1979) Non-fiction: Death in the Afternoon (1932)  · Green Hills of Africa (1935)  · Hemingway, The Wild Years (1962)  · A Moveable Feast (1964)  · By-Line: Ernest Hemingway (1967)  · Ernest Hemingway: Cub Reporter (1970)  · Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981)  · The Dangerous Summer (1985)  · Dateline: Toronto (1985)  · True at First Light (1999 memoir)  · On Paris (On) (2008) Film adaptations: A Farewell to Arms (1932)  · For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)  · To Have and Have Not (1944)  · The Killers (1946)  · The Macomber Affair (1947)  · The Breaking Point (1950)  · The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)  · The Killers (1956)  · The Sun Also Rises (1957)  · A Farewell to Arms (1957)  · The Old Man and the Sea (1958)  · Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962)  · The Killers (1964)  · For Whom the Bell Tolls (1965)  · Islands in the Stream (1977)  · The Sun Also Rises (1984)  · In Love and War (1996)  · The Old Man and the Sea (1999) TV adaptations: A Farewell to Arms (1990)