The modernist text talks about the historical and social context of the First World War. As a movement, modernism highlights the impact of war and its impact on society. Two modernist authors of the First World War, Ford Madox Ford and Ernest Hemingway, choose to express their text with fragmented chronologies, to juxtapose the war and relationships in society. Yet, the modernist text exposes the use of dialogue as a mode that fragments the reader's mind through the singularity or multifocalization of events which adds to the reliability of the narrator. Ford Madox Ford's first-person narrative The Good Soldier presents itself as very formal, yet conversational between narrator and reader, compared to Ernest Hemingway's omniscient, everyday third-person discourse in In Our Time . However, the dialogue in these texts complements the reliability of the narrator through the fragmented timelines of past and present events, the portrayal of the character's emotions through the dialogue, and the judgments made by the narrator. The dialogue in The Good Soldier is spoken with the use of formal speech. between the narrator and the reader to complement the reliability of the narrator, John Dowell, by fragmenting the mode of time. At the beginning of the story in “Part One,” the narrator gives the reader a glimpse into his mind and a brief summary of the text; the narrator chooses to describe the relationships between him and his wife Florence and their friends Edward Ashburnham and Leonora Ashburnham (Ford 5-37). There are small snippets of character dialogue that contribute to the fragmentation of time. John Dowell continually speaks of "nine seasons" (Ford 5) or "nine years" (Ford 9) when describing the years in which he and Florence experienced the Ashburnh...... middle of paper.. .... rnals2.scholarsportal.info.ezproxy.library.yorku.ca/tmp/49790301049939 03123.pdf. Internet. November 22, 2011.Ford, Madox Ford. The Good Soldier. United States: First Vintage International, 1989. Print. Hemingway, Ernest. “Indian camp.” In our time. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003. 15-19. Print.---. “Old man.” In our time. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2003. 115-129. Print.---. “The hard blow of three days”. In our time. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003. 39-49. Print. Soboleva, Maja. “Epistemological principles of cultural dialogue”. International Journal of Communication 18.1-2 (2008): 79-95. http://go.galegroup.com.ezproxy.library.yorku.ca/ps/retrieve.do?retrieveForm at=PDF_FROM_CALLISTO&inPS=true&prodId=LitRC&userGroupName=yorku_ main&workId =PI-1AIY-2008-XAL00-IDSI-74.JPG% 7CPI-1AIY-2008-XAL00-IDSI-75.JPG%7CPI-1AIY-2008-XAL00-IDSI-76.JPG%7CPI-1A. Internet. November 22, 2011.