A Canary for One

"A Canary for One" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway. The short story was first published in 1927.[1][2][3] It was republished in The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1961) and The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway (1987).

Ernest Hemingway with his second wife in 1927, shortly after divorcing his first wife

Plot

Three Americans, a young couple and an older woman, are traveling on a train to Paris. The older woman lectures the couple that Americans make better husbands, describing how she prevented her daughter from marrying a Swiss man. She explains that she bought her daughter a canary to improve her mood. Throughout the conversation, only the young wife entertains the woman's conversation. As they exit the train, it is revealed that the American couple traveled to Paris to finalize a divorce.

Development

Hemingway began writing the first drafts of "A Canary for One" in September 1926.[4]

References
  1. "A Canary for One". www.goodreads.com. Goodreads. Retrieved 2020-04-17.
  2. "Courting Exposure: The Composition of Hemingway's "A Canary for One"". ResearchGate.
  3. Hemingway, Ernest. "A Canary for One". Verlag nicht ermittelbar, Worldcat. OCLC 613269374. Retrieved 2020-04-17.
  4. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/29826/pdf
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