The Snows of Kilimanjaro (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ernest Hemingway
- First Published: 1936
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The late 1920's or early 1930's
- Setting: Tanganyika near the Kenya border, close to Mount Kilimanjaro
- Principal Characters: Harry Walden, Helen
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Africa or Africans, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Guilt, 1920’s, 1930’s, Death or dying, Loneliness, Terminal illness or terminally ill, Wealth, Happiness, Camping, campers, or campgrounds
- Locales: Kenya
The Story
As the story opens, the speaker, later identified as Harry, is proclaiming that something is painless. It soon reveals that Harry and his wife, Helen, are encamped somewhere near Mount Kilimanjaro, which, at nearly twenty thousand feet, is Africa's highest mountain. An epigraph at the beginning of the story, before the action is under way, describes the snow-capped mountain, mentioning that the name for its western summit is translated from the local Masai language as the House of God.
Extensive dialogue at the beginning of the story reveals that the speakers,...
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