Daily puzzle

Put In Another Country back in order

Seven beats from our edition of In Another Country by Ernest Hemingway, shuffled. Drag them, or use the arrows, until the story runs straight. No account, no streak to lose.

  1. Milan in the fall The narrator describes the cold autumn city, the war that continues but is not visited, and the daily walk to the hospital.
  2. The machines The doctor operates rehabilitation machines on the wounded, promising restored hands and legs, showing before-and-after photographs as proof.
  3. The young men The narrator befriends three Italians with medals; they walk through a hostile working-class district where civilians resent officers.
  4. Medals and doubt The narrator senses he won his medals by accident, not by the deeds the others performed, and feels the distance between them.
  5. The major and grammar The major, a former champion fencer with a shrunken hand, drills the narrator in Italian and dismisses the machines as nonsense.
  6. The wife's death The major learns his young wife has died of pneumonia; he weeps, then forces himself back to control and condemns marriage.
  7. Photographs on the wall The doctor hangs framed photographs of healed cases by the major's machine, but the men's faith in any cure is exhausted.