A Day's Wait by Ernest Hemingway: Summary

Summary of A Day's Wait by Ernest Hemingway A Day's Wait - Summary                                                   “A Day’s Wait” short story is written by Ernest Hemingway. Ernest Hemingway belongs to America and he received the prestigious Nobel Prize for Literature. "A Day's Wait" (1936) is a brief story that portrays a tragic outcome of miscommunication between a boy and his father. Schatz is a nine-year-old boy who becomes sick one winter night. A doctor is called, and the doctor diagnosed Schatz has flu and a high fever. The doctor leaves medicine for the boy and tells the father that the boy's temperature is 102 degrees. Schatz overhears it and that causes conflict and misunderstanding between the boy and his father. The father reads stories to Schatz from Howard Pyle’s Book of Pirates. While doing it the father observes that the boy does not follow the story; instead, he stares at the book and feels detached. Schatz asks his father to leave if sitting …