Benson, Jackson. (1975). The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: Critical Essays. Benson, Jackson. (1989). "Ernest Hemingway: The Life as Fiction and the Fiction as Life". In "An Alpine Idyll" the "unnaturalness" of snowboarding in the superior country late spring snow is juxtaposed in opposition to the "unnaturalness" of the peasant who authorized his wife's dead entire body to linger also lengthy in the shed throughout the winter.