The village gains from this sort of enterprise, of course. But I also find it satisfactory because a village shop offers one of the few ways in which a modest individual can still get along in the world without attaching himself to the big battalions(大批,许多)of industry or commerce.
Passage Three
Ernest Hemingway was born in a prosperous Chicago suburb, Oak Park, Illinois. His father was a highly-respected physician, and unusually keen amateur naturalist devoted to hunting and fishing. He actually taught his precocious son Ernest to handle a fishing line at three and a half and a gun not long thereafter. From the time the boy was six he proudly accompanied his father on vacations in the North Michigan woods, leaving an older sister, three younger ones and a baby brother at home with mother. Grace Hall Hemingway was, like her husband, a Christian, but they had few other tastes in common. She was determined that her oldest son, who had perfect pitch ----both his hearing and sense of smell were extraordinary sharp all his life although his eyesight was poor----should become a musician. Much of the lifelong opposition he felt toward his mother expressed itself in anger at her having kept him out of school a whole year in an unsuccessful attempt to force concentrated study of the cello .
Ernest shared his fathers love of the outdoors, greatly admired his skills and enjoyed his company, but was unhappily conscious that Dr. Hemingway was never really dared oppose his wife. A bitter short story, The Doctor and His Wife, gives a picture of their relationship and their sons reaction to it at an early age. In his late novel the hero, Robert Jordan, thinks sadly that his father was really a coward who finally proved his cowardice(怯懦)by committing suicide.
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