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Chaman Nahal

It is now accepted by almost every critic of Hemingway that the hero in his work deserves special attention. Philip Young sees the Hemingway protagonist as a sick man, wounded physically and psychically [see CLC, Vol 13]. Carlos Baker reads in him symbolic meanings, expressive of the contemporary emotional tensions [see excerpt above], Leo Gurko has written a full-length book on the subject, for to him Hemingway's novels are essentially portrayals of the hero as the "individual man" [see CLC, Vol. 6]. Thus, it is almost generally agreed that one of the important expressions of the Hemingway literary aesthetics is his hero. As it happens, his shorter fiction, now to be considered, offers as wide a scope as his novels for describing the Hemingway hero. (p. 80)

It is a mistake to imagine that Hemingway wrote all [his] stories and sketches merely to promote or develop only one character—that is, Nick Adams. This is a miscalculation...

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1. Introduction
2. Edmund Wilson
3. Cleanth Brooks, Jr. and Robert Penn Warren
4. Carlos Baker
5. Earl Rovit
6. Joseph DeFalco
7. Clinton S. Burhans, Jr.
8. Chaman Nahal
9. Phillip Young
10. Phillip Young
11. T. G. Vaidyanathan
12. Stuart L. Burns
13. Linda W. Wagner
14. Kenneth S. Lynn
15. Copyright

1. Ernest Hemingway
2. American Literature