Wai Chee Dimock, professor at Yale, leads this session from her course Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner on Hemingway's 1925 story collection In Our Time. She groups three vignettes, "Indian Camp," "Chapter II," and "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife," to trace how Hemingway's spare prose handles pain and ethnic tension in the American Midwest. Drawing on Elaine Scarry's and Susan Sontag's writing on suffering and representation, along with Edvard Munch's paintings, Dimock reads the first two pieces as studies in how language both transmits and blocks empathy for violence. She then turns to "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife," where conflict between Native Americans and whites gets defused rather than escalated, the reverse of the pattern in the earlier stories. The lecture moves through the book's publication history and structure before settling into close reading, ending with broader reflections on how the cluster stages pain and peacekeeping side by side.