Explain how "A Day's Wait" is a slice of life story.

I think that "A Day's Wait" can be seen as a "slice of
life" story in both theme and construction.  The most mundane of experiences is detailed
in terms of a boy being sick and a father's vigil over him. There is nothing very
extraordinary about the conditions in which the boy and father live.  The setting and
condition is very real.  The boy's reaction and mistaken belief of his own death is very
real life.  The father reading a book about pirates to his son confirms the mundane and
natural of the story.  The discussion of death, a topic that is not mundane, is even
framed in a mundane manner.  The boy recognizes the differences between Celsius and
Fahrenheit readings.  In this small mundane fact, the boy recognizes his
misunderstanding regarding death.  The fact that the ending includes "small things" that
make him cry also brings out this "slice of life" element.  The story is representative
of the Hemingway "local color" short story that takes a moment in real life and explores
its philosophical implications.  It is for this reason that so much in the story is
presented in a "slice of life" manner, for its depiction of the mundane helps to
heighten the universal applications that emerge form the short
story.