Realize 8 of 15

[Story deleted at the publisher's request. Simon and Schuster 9/6/04]

================ Paragraphs 69-88

69 = description of fertile side of the Ebro Valley

This terrain may approximate the foreground of what Jig saw from the train station platform in the Ebro River valley. Missing are white mountains in the background. (This is one photo from the town where Hemingway and his first wife, Hadley, actually changed trains on their way to Pamplona, Spain, probably in 1924, three years before "Hills" was written.)

69.1 Does this passing shadow signify an opportunity passing?
69.2 This is a different landscape, more fertile--with grain growing and flowing water. How does this landscape represent to her what she wants out of their relationship?

70-71 Is she muttering her true feelings under her breath or is he ignoring her?

72-73 What's "everything" to her? to him? (not the same)

74-80 Why not? Will the operation solve this problem? What does Jig believe has permanently changed train16.gif (12908 bytes) between her and this American man?

80 Who's "they" and what did they take away that can't be gotten back?

83 She was in the light; was she "seeing the light"? It seems she has realized something-- what?

84 Feeling vs. knowing: There's a kind of inevitability in Jig's attitude, as if she knows what the outcome will be and is fatalistic about it.

86 Sarcasm, again? But milder because she defers to his knowledge again--drinking.

87 What does he want her to realize (believe?) that she doesn't already? (Para. 90 doesn't really seem to answer this question because he only repeats his earlier platitudes.)

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