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 during World War I, Ford Madox Ford and Ernest Hemingway choose to express their text with fragmented timelines, to juxtapose war and relationships in society. However, the modernist text exposes the use of dialogue as a mode that fragments the reader's mind through single or multi-focalization of events which increases the reliability of the narrator. Ford Madox Ford's first-person narrative, The Good Soldier, comes across as very formal, yet conversational between the narrator and the reader compared to Ernest Hemingway's omniscient, everyday third-person speech in In Our Time. However, the dialogue in these texts integrates the narrator's reliability 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 dialogues with the use of formal speech between the narrator and the reader to complement the reliability of the narrator, John Dowell, as it fragments the mode of time. At the beginning of the narrative in “Part One” the narrator gives the reader an insight into his mind and a brief summary of the text; the narrator chooses to describe the relationships between himself 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 talks about “nine seasons” (Ford 5) or “nine years” (Ford 9) when describing the years he and Florence knew the Ashburnh...... middle of paper...... rnals2.scholarsportal.info.ezproxy.library.yorku.ca/tmp/49790301049939 03123.pdf. Network. November 22, 2011.Ford, Madox Ford. The good soldier. USA: First Vintage International, 1989. Print.Hemingway, Ernest. "Indian camp." In our time. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003. 15-19. Press.---. "My old man." In our time. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003. 115-129. Press.---. "The Three Day Heist." 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. Network. November 22, 2011.