THE THREE DAY BLOW by ERNEST HEMINGWAY

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

Jon Hagadorn

Fiction, Arts

4.2 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In 1925 Hemingway's collection of his first short stories appeared as In Our Time, and included the cryptic The Three Day Blow. He begins with a memory of WWI, then gives us a dialogue between Nick Adams (Hemingway's alter -ego in his early stories) and a friend as they spend a few days drinking at his friend's fathers lodge. The theme is baically to portray a 'lost generation' of young men after the war who had no desire to do much with their lives, including getting married and raising children. There is a lot of "He said" and simple dialogue but this style was new and appealed to a younger audience of readers. It would be years before Hemingway reached his peak but this collection started him on his path.

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0:00.0	Welcome back everyone to 1001 classic short stories and tales.
0:18.6	This is your host, John Haggadorn.
0:21.2	In the years directly after World War I in America, it was a time of change.
0:27.1	And a lot of young men who came back from World War I needed a lot of time to get adjusted to life as it really was.
0:34.1	This was one of Hemingway's earliest stories from a collection that was called In Our Time.
0:39.4	This one's called The Three Day Blow.
0:42.1	For you, ladies, you will soon know what men really talked about a hundred years ago.
0:46.9	Is it any different than today?
0:48.8	You can decide for yourself.
0:51.4	And now the Three Day Blow by Ernest Hemingway.
0:55.7	This is Chapter 4 of Hemingway's short story collection in our time, published in 1925.
1:03.4	It was a frightfully hot day.
1:06.3	We had jammed an absolutely perfect barricade across the bridge.
1:10.2	It was simply priceless. A big old
1:13.0	wrought iron grating from the front of a house. Too heavy to lift, and you could shoot through it,
1:18.6	and they would have to climb over it. It was absolutely topping. They tried to get over it,
1:24.5	and we potted them from 40 yards. They rushed it, and officers came out alone and worked on it.
1:30.7	It was an absolutely perfect obstacle.
1:33.6	Their officers were very fine.
1:35.7	We were frightfully put out when we heard the flank had gone, and we had to fall back.
1:40.7	That was a World War I memory.
1:43.6	At this point, Hemingway brings out his alter ego, Nick.
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