"A Day's Wait" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway which appears in The Snows of Kilimanjaro, first printed in 1933. This article is in need of attention. ... Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. ... The Snows of Kilimanjaro cover The Snows of Kilimanjaro is a collection of short stories by Ernest Hemingway. ...

Plot summary

The story focuses on a nine-year old boy named Schatz (term of endearment the father uses to address his son) and his father. The boy gets the flu, and has a 102 degrees Fahrenheit temperature, and acts very strangely about it, much to the confusion of the father. In the end the boy asks when he will die, thinking that an 102 degree temperature will kill him because he heard in Europe (where Celsius is used) that you cannot live with a temperature over 44 degrees. Respiratory disease properly named influenza(say: in-floo-en-zah ). Some specific varities of influenza with a vaccination available are: A-New Caledonia, A-California, B-Shanghai. ... For other uses, see Fahrenheit (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Temperature (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Europe (disambiguation). ... Celsius is, or relates to, the Celsius temperature scale (previously known as the centigrade scale). ...