Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

Why was Schatz white-faced and nervous?

A Day's Wait

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Schatz was "white-faced" because he was suffering from influenza. He was nervous because he believed that his illness was terminal..... he was waiting to die.

He had been waiting to die all day, ever since nine o'clock in the morning.

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A Day's Wait