“They come after you. They take your home. They take your sisters.” “I don’t believe it,” Passini said. “They can’t do that to everybody. Let everybody defend his home. Let them keep their sisters in the house.” “They hang you. They come and make you be a soldier again. Not in the auto-ambulance, in the infantry.”

The speakers describe people being driven from their homes, losing their sisters, and being forced back into the infantry. These threats show war’s devastating effects on ordinary people, making “the harsh and powerful reality of war” the best answer. The passage is not mainly about Hemingway’s personal life or the boredom of battle.

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