How would you interpret the phrase ‘the sun on the wall’? How would you interpret the phrase ‘the sun on the wall’ in the last sentence? Does it mean the sunlight cast on the wall of some houses along the alleyway? Thanks. It’s from A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway. the context: In the town there were more guns, there were some new hospitals, you met British men and sometimes women, on the street, and a few more houses had been hit by shell fire. Jt was warm and like the spring and I walked down the alleyway of trees, warmed from the sun on the wall, and found we still lived in the same house and that it all looked the same as when I had left it.