The "Three Day Blow" by Ernest Hemingway starts off in a forest type area. Nick is trying to get to his friend Bill's cabin. It was a very windy day. Finally Nick found his friend Bill and they both went inside the cabin. Bill's father was outside hunting. They were left alone at the cabin. Nick and Bill started drinking moderately and started to talk about baseball.
Soon they were both bored and decided to get drunk. It was very cold inside, so Nick got some logs and put it in the fire. Bill was telling Nick that he was happy that Nick that marry Marge. Bill said that once a man get 's married, his life is over. Nick started to think in his mind if he had made the right decision. Once again they were bored. This time, they grabbed a couple of shotguns and decided to join Bill's father.
"My Old Man" by Ernest Hemingway is about a horse jockey and his son named Joe. They used to travel a lot to different races. Besides racing, his father used to bet on horse races. Before the race, he used to go into the jockey-room, and ask his jockey colleague's who was going to win the next race. He won great amounts of money this way.
Joe's father decided to buy a horse and train it and also ride it in races. The name of the horse was Gilford. In his first race, they finished in third place. In the next race Joe was in the stands watching his dad ride Gilford. On the last lap of the race, Joe saw Gilford but he did not see his father. His father was on the ground bleeding from his head. Joe had realized that his father had died and he started to cry. He realized that he has no one to take care of him now.
These two literatures do not share a common theme. In "My Old Man" the theme of the story is change. Joe was always used to his father being there by his side. Now that he dies, he has no one to look after him. In "The Three Day Blow" the theme is making a mistake. If Nick did not listen to Bill, he would have married Marge and they would have had a good life together.
