Read the excerpt from Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms.
The major was a little man with upturned mustaches. He had been in the war in Libya and wore two wound-stripes.
He said that if the thing went well he would see that I was decorated. I said I hoped it would go well but that he was
too kind. I asked him if there was a big dugout where the drivers could stay and he sent a soldier to show me. I went
with him and found the dugout, which was very good. The drivers were pleased with it and I left them there.
In the excerpt, what does the diction, or words used to express an idea, show about the narrator?

1. find at least 9 adjectives from this opening passage used to describe the setting of the story- "to build a fire" setting: day had broken cold and gray, exceedingly cold and gray, when the man turned aside from the main yukon trail and climbed the high earth-bank, where a dim and little-travelled trail led eastward through the fat spruce timberland. it was a steep bank, and he paused for breath at the top, excusing the act to himself by looking at his watch. it was nine o'clock. there was no sun nor hint of sun, through there was not a cloud in the sky. it was a clear day, and yet there seemed an intangible pall over the face of things, subtle gloom that made the day dark, and that was due to the absence of sun. this fact did not worry the man. he was used to the lack of sun. it had been days since he had seen the sun, and he knew that a few more days must pass before that cheerful orb, due south, would just peep above the sky-line and dip immediately from view.