A Canary for One by Ernest Hemingway - Corcodel

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A Canary for One: Summary A Canary for One: Critical Discussion First published in 1927, “A Canary for One” occurs in the early 1920s on a train headed toward Paris. Its three characters, an older wealthy woman and a couple in their late twenties, are all Americans; only at the end do we realize that the young husband is the actual narrator of the story. As they sit together on the train, the older woman initiates and then dominates the conversation. She first voices her concern that modern trains move at such rapid rates that wrecks are bound to occur but then turns to the topic of marriage, asserting that only American men are suitable husbands for American women. This, in turn, brings the woman to what is really on her mind, her daughter. While on a family vacation to Switzerland two years beforehand, she confides to the young couple her daughter had met an eligible Swiss bachelor, and the two had fallen in love. But the woman would not let her daughter wed a foreigner, and she forced the family to return to America. ...