Select the correct answer.
What does the irony in these excerpts from "In Another Country" by Ernest Hemingway convey?
The doctor came up to the machine where I was sitting and said: "What did you like best to do before the war? Did you practice a sport?" I said: "Yes, football."
"Good," he said. "You will be able to play football again better than ever."
My knee did not bend and the leg dropped straight from the knee to the ankle without a calf, and the machine was to bend the knee and make it move as riding a tricycle.
... In the next machine was a major who had a little hand like a baby's. He winked at me when the doctor examined his hand, which was between two leather straps that bounced up and down and flapped the stiff fingers, and said: "And will I too play football, captain-doctor?" He had been a very great fencer, and before the war the greatest fencer in Italy.
• A. The doctor, who is supposed to be sympathetic and helpful to his patients, does not really understand their suffering.
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Modern technology aided war efforts by providing horrific weapons, but it couldn't help the soldiers.
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The war is ruthless and took away the things most important to the identity and happiness of both men.
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Despite facing the horrors of war, the soldiers are still able to keep a sense of humor.
