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Ernest Hemingway
It’s hard to point to a single sentence that conveys Hemingway’s attitude toward the war. In this short slice-of-life piece, there are a few details that stand out: The doctor and his physical...
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Ernest Hemingway
In the story, Hemingway does not tell us directly what we should think about the old man. He does, however, hint indirectly that the old man will die if he chooses to stay in the area. The narrator...
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Ernest Hemingway
Good question! In a story like this one, where there's barely any action at all, it's a good idea to pay special attention to passages in which a character notices something unusual about himself....
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Ernest Hemingway
First of all, it's important to remember that mood is the feelings created within the reader. Since mood is a response to the work—and every reader responds differently to a piece—the same work...
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Ernest Hemingway
"The Capital of the World" is one of Hemingway's many short stories which focuses on bullfighting. It is set in Madrid, the capital of Spain. The title reflects the fact that for the main...
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Ernest Hemingway
In "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," Harry (the protagonist) and his wife are on safari in Africa. Harry was scratched by a thorn and his cut has become infected to the point of turning into gangrene....
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Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway believed in showing only what was going on with the fewest and simplest words possible to do it. He doesn't explain why his characters make the choices they do. He simply presents the...
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Ernest Hemingway
This is a very broad question and I'll answer it using the short story "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place." While this isn't the most obvious story to examine how Hemingway examines masculinity in his...
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Ernest Hemingway
"Under the Ridge" is one of Ernest Hemingway's four short stories about the Spanish Civil War which were posthumously published in book form in 1969 with the release of The Fifth Column and Four...
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Milan Kundera
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Ernest Hemingway
Part of the short story collection In Our Time, "The End of Something" by Ernest Hemingway describes how Nick ends his relationship with his girlfriend Marjorie, and in so doing, enters the second...
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Ernest Hemingway
The Hemingway Hero.
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Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway's short story "Cat in the Rain" is essentially a symbolic story of wants and needs. As an American social critic, the story "Cat in the Rain," like so many of his other works, features...
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Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway was apparently telling his own story through the experience of Santiago. Hemingway was getting to be an old man himself. He was living in Cuba and must have seen the native Cuban...
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Soldier's Home
The main character in Hemingway's "Soldier's Home," is Harold Krebs, recently returned home to a small mid-western town after fighting in Europe during WWI. Krebs is clearly suffering from what we...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
I think that being able to examine the shared theme in both works is an element that can be analyzed. Both works depict a clear statement as to the cost of war and what it does to the soldiers who...
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Ernest Hemingway
When considering whether Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea" can be categorized as a tragedy, it is appropriate to first arrive at common ground on the definition of "tragedy" in the...
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A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway was raised a Congregationalist, and the independence inherent in that religion stayed with him throughout his life. What didn't appear to have stayed with him was the theological...
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The Sun Also Rises
The impotence that Jake suffers from acts as a very powerful metaphor for the way that war had changed perceptions of masculinity and challenged what it was to be a man. Whereas before, war was a...
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Harry is a man of contradictions. He is brave and unsure, dismissive and thoughtful, satisfied and regretful. At the beginning of the story, Harry is brave in the face of death. But his bravery...
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Soldier's Home
While it may be coincidental, it is, nevertheless, interesting that Hemingway has named his story "Soldier's Home," a term used in Eric Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, a novel that...
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Hills Like White Elephants
In "Hills Like White Elephants," Hemingway puts the reader in the position of a voyeur and an eavesdropper. The reader can only obtain information from what is done and said by the two principal...
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In Another Country
Large framed photographs of healed hands have been hung to offer the major hope. The major's injuries are not only physical ones, they are also deeply emotional. The fact that the major does not...
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A Day's Wait
I think that the choice of the pirate book is rooted in a desire to clear Schatz's mind of being under the weather. Pyle's Book of Pirates is a book intended to capture the imagination of...
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Hills Like White Elephants
I tend to think that the state of the relationship between both characters in Hemingway's short story is one that is in trouble. Either way, this relationship does not seem to possess the lasting...
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Hills Like White Elephants
The idea of the baggage labels from all over Europe help to bring out a couple of elements about the nature of the couple. The first is that they are fairly self- indulgent in the fact that both...
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Ernest Hemingway
Modernism demanded that writers experimented in order to find new ways to express difficult new realities. Ernest Hemingway developed his own writing style to express the reality of war. Hemingway...
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In Another Country
This story can be related to the famous first line of Tolstoy's novel, Anna Karenina. “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Hemingway's story...
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Ernest Hemingway
In Hemingway's own words on the subject: If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth...
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Ernest Hemingway
which author?
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In Another Country
One of many Hemingway stories anthologized widely, "In Another Country" connects with several of Hemingway's novels. In particular, the novel, The Sun Also Rises, shares themes and metaphors with...
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Ernest Hemingway
A story that gets read often in classes is Hemingway's "In Another Country". It's a masterful story in its use of understatement and restraint, symbolism, and thematic development. The story...
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Ernest Hemingway
According to Paula McLain, who researched Hemingway's life extensively for her novel about his first wife Hadley, Jack "Bumby" Hemingway admired his father and valued his time spent with him. He...
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Ernest Hemingway
Having been a journalist as a young man, Ernest Hemingway practiced writing in a clear, simple style that was economical. That is, he did not write sentences that had many introductory words or...
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Ernest Hemingway
What might appear to be violence to many seems to be adventure to Ernest Hemingway. For example, Hemingway grew up traveling to Michigan to hunt; he enjoyed the adventure aspect of those hunting...
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Ernest Hemingway
An example of common writing style for Hemingway would be his use of third person objective perspective. This perspective is difficult for writers, as it requires the author to step back from...
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Ernest Hemingway
The relationship between Henry and Catherine is challenged by two forces, primarily - war and temporary psychosis - both of which represent an unsettled world in which the pair cannot find a safe...
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Ernest Hemingway
The setting of Indian Camp is an Indian Reserve in America I want to say after World War 1. The father and son are coming onto the plantation (by canoe) to help with the delivery of a baby, and if...
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Ernest Hemingway
Virtually nothing goes right for Krebs upon his return to his parents' house in his home town. His return certainly does not live up to the American Dream. Though he has been part of the victorious...
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Ernest Hemingway
If Hemingway is considered an international artist, it might have something to do with the fact that Hemingway never felt himself needing to be confined to one nation. Hemingway understood early...
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Ernest Hemingway
In part because he is one of America's greatest writers, Ernest Hemingway's stature as a literary giant has reached around the globe. National boundaries do not contain great writing, and...
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Ernest Hemingway
Two recent works dating from 2010 that examine Hemingway from a stylistic perspective are an academic paper and a book. The scholarship comes from academicians in China and India, respectively....
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Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway was famous for using understatement in his fiction and for being a great advocate of this technique. He once said that a good work of fiction should resemble an iceberg, in which...
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Ernest Hemingway
To use the words of a title of Thomas Wolfe's "You Can't Go Home Again." The theme expresses the fact that a person is greatly altered by something as horrific as war; therefore, he cannot return...
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Ernest Hemingway
The soul of the journalist never left Ernest Hemingway. Whether he wrote of upper Michigan where he grew up or the conflicts of war and the heart and the soul where Hemingway had lain himself, he...
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Ernest Hemingway
Quite interesting in this film is the opening footage of World War I scenes and the posing group of young men, showing the transition from life to photograph. The part about the photograph is...
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Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway often drew on events from his own life when composing his short fiction. An especially significant example is his tale titled “A Very Short Story.” In this extremely brief...
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Ernest Hemingway
The most profound affect upon his work related to the historical era in which Hemingway lived derives from his experiences in World War II. Before the war, in high school in Oak Park, Illinois,...
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Ernest Hemingway
In 1964, literary critic and author Alfred Kazin explained that Hemingway, journalist and minimalist, sought the perfect sentence to the point of almost obsessive behavior. Kazin stated that...
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Ernest Hemingway
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