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by Ernest Hemingway

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  What is the predominant theme in Hemingway's "Fathers and Sons"?
  A strong proponent of the power of nature, Ernest Hemingway sets his story, "Fathers and Sons," amid the beauty of cleared fields and thickets. For Hemingway, there was a healing power to nature...

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  How would you contrast Nick's relationship with his father to his relationship with his young son in "Fathers and Sons"? (It seems that there is a focus on what causes a person to be sentimental--some level of cruelty and abuse--so having been...
  While Nick Adams drives along the highway as the day darkens, Hemingway writes that he was all through thinking about his father. The end of the day never made him think of him. Nonetheless, the...

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  What do you think the relationship was really like between Nick Adams and his father? "Fathers and Sons" by Ernest Hemingway
  In Ernest Hemingway's "Fathers and Sons," a part of the Nick Adams series about a young man's coming of age, Nick drives through a small town rather than take a detour. His son sleeps on the front...

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  Describe the character of Nick in "Fathers and Sons."
  This story gives us a kind of stream-of-consciousness interior monologue from the perspective of Nick Adams as he drives through America with his son next to him. Nick is a hunter, who is on his...

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