A Day’s Wait: A Psycho Analytic Study of the Juvenile Mind

Ernest Hemingway, the great American Short story writer and novelist has presented the indefatigable human nature in all his works. In `A Day’s Wait’, he presents the plight of a small boy who has to fight against imaginary fear due to some of the wrong information perceived by him at a tender age. It is said that imaginary fears are more fatal than the real ones. The readers sympathize with the little boy who undergoes great mental pain and sees imminent death. This story is also a wonderful example of the father- son relationship. This research paper aims at analyzing the need of communication, in absence of which the boy’s life would have been in jeopardy.