Compares Wharton\u27s treatment of the physically and psychologically injured in her short fiction with Hemingway\u27s, detailing the establishment of medical systems during World War I designed to treat and return soldiers to the front as quickly as possible, along with the authors\u27 firsthand experience with these medical bureaucracies. Through comparing Wharton\u27s Coming Home and Writing a War Story with Hemingway\u27s In Another Country and Now I Lay Me, Haytock concludes that both authors broaden the trope of the passive soldier in mechanized trench warfare to include the injured soldier\u27s post-combat treatment in a medical system that takes over his life
