 The ten Nick Adams stories utilized by screenwriter A. E. Hotchner  are "Indian Camp," "The Doctor and the Doctors Wife," "The End of  Something," "The Three Day Blow," "The Battler," "A Very Short  Story," "In Another Country," "Now I Lay Me," "The Way of the  World," and "A Way Youll Never Be." The latter portion of the film  set in Italy is drawn from "A Farewell to Arms."