In Our Time (short story collection) we are in hell." Hemingway conjures a world where "the weak are pitilessly exploited by the strong, and ... all functions of life ... promise only pain." Hemingway's semi-autobiographical character Nick Adams is "vital to Hemingway's career", writes Mellow, and generally his character reflects Hemingway's experiences. Nick, who features in eight of the stories, is an alter ego, a means for Hemingway to express his own experiences, from the first story '"Indian Camp" which features Nick as a child. According to critic Howard Hannum, the trauma of birth and suicide Hemingway paints in "Indian Camp" rendered a leitmotif that gave
All Happy Families Are Alike Leo Tolstoy: "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." The episode was watched by 4.93 million viewers. This was an increase in viewership from the previous episode, which was watched by 4.58 million viewers. This made "Gotham" the most watched program of the day in FOX, beating "The Following". "All Happy Families Are Alike" received mixed reviews from critics but acclaim from fans. The episode received a "rotten" rating of 59% with an average score of 7.3 out of 10 on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, with the site's consensus stating: "'All Happy