The Snows of Kilimanjaro

"The Snows of Kilimanjaro" is the story of a few days in the life of Harry, a would-be writer on safari in Africa with his wife, Helen. The couple's safari has been cut short because Harry has an...

"The Snows of Kilimanjaro" is a frustrating story about a frustrated man, who has misspent his life and wasted his talents, and now finds himself dying of slow blood-poisoning on a safari far away...

"The Snows of Kilimanjaro" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway that takes place on the African savanna; The protagonist, Harry, and his wife are sitting outside having a discussion about his leg,...

The end of Ernest Hemingway's "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" is ambiguous to be sure, and it can be difficult to understand whether or not Harry's trip in the airplane was real or imagined. At first,...

"The Snows of Kilimanjaro" is one of Ernest Hemingway's most masterfully written short stories, and it has plenty of linguistic style and literary devices embedded in the text to keep even the...

There are three generally acknowledged types of literary irony: verbal irony, situational irony, and dramatic irony. Hemingway's story "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" contains examples of both verbal...

There are several examples of stream of consciousness in this story. I will provide a few to help you understand how the technique is used, but note that there are many other examples of it...

The leopard in Ernest Hemingway's "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" is referenced in a short kind of prologue before the story ever begins. Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and...

In English literature courses, the iceberg theory refers to the idea that the meaning of a work of literature is hidden under the surface; in other words, understanding what the story is about will...

As others have noted, the stream-of-consciousness style Hemingway uses in "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" is associated with modernism. It's important to note, however, that stream-of-consciousness is...

To some extent, the relationship between Helen and Harry reverses traditional gender roles. It's Helen's wealth that supports Harry rather than the other way round, as would have been more normal...

In "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" gender roles are reversed to a considerable extent. It's Harry who's placed in the submissive role traditionally accorded to women. As he lays dying, he finds himself...

At the end of his life, Harry blames his wife's money for his own professional corruption. He believes that he was tempted and seduced by money, thus abandoning his talent and responsibilities as a...

The flashbacks in "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" show how Harry, dying of an infected leg wound in Africa, mentally processes the fact that he is going to die, and the effect of that realization on his...

Over the years, there have been different critical interpretations of Helen in "The Snows of Kilimanjaro." Edmund Wilson saw her as an emasculating force who had taken away all of Harry's drive and...

Throughout the short story "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," Hemingway interrupts his narrative to switch to the internal thoughts of the writer Harry Walden, who is reflecting on his life as he lies on...

Modernist literature reacted against what its proponents believed was the overly descriptive, embellished, and decorative literature of the Victorian era. One attribute of modernism, of which...

As the other answer to this question states, Ernest Hemingway's "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" is a short story and does not have a "thesis." The thesis would be the main point you would argue for in a...

Harry, the protagonist of "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," is brutally honest with himself, compassionate and loyal enough to try to protect Helen from his brutal honesty, and a failed writer. Dying in...

The vultures are introduced at the beginning of the story. Harry, who is dying, seems only partly rational, as if he is already succumbing to the slow, gradual onset of death. He is not the least...

This story portrays the theme of isolation through Harry's feelings and memories. He has developed gangrene in his leg, the result of a scratch that he failed to clean properly when it first...

Harry, the short story’s protagonist, lived by a code of courage. When faced with dangerous, life-or-death situations, Harry remained calm under pressure and found ways to survive and advance....

In Ernest Hemingway’s short story “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” it seems significant – and also a reflection of literary “modernism” – that Harry ultimately dies from a wound caused by something as...

Harry, the central character in Hemingway's short story "Snows of Kilimanjaro," is largely in conflict with himself. He has spent much of his life aimlessly wandering as part of the Lost Generation...

In most stories, the protagonist and the antagonist are different characters. The most simple example would be a story where there's a recognizable good guy, the protagonist, and an equally...

I think he begins the story with the dead animals as a way of signifying how death is such a big part of the story. Death is always in the background in this story, and sometimes it comes out to...

It is said that "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" is Ernest Hemingway's somewhat autobiographical portrait of his life as an author. The best answer to your question is actually found in your question:...

In Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences, the biographer James R. Mellow claims that Hemingway's "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" is "unquestionably the great masterpiece among his short stories."...

The protagonist of "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" is a lot like Ernest Hemingway himself, so this story is somewhat like a confession. The protagonist has a love for nature, which was also one of...

Death is symbolized in the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro and in the hyena that skulks about Harry's tent. The hyena also represents Harry's regret at having wasted his creative talents. When Harry...

Ernest Hemingway became famous in part for his introduction of a clean, terse writing style, approximate to a journalist's approach of letting the "facts speak for themselves," and "The Snows of...

This is a story about a man, Harry, dying on the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro as he and his wife await the plane they hope will take him to help. The man knows he is dying, despite his wife's...

There is a bit of Hemingway in this character (a writer visiting Africa), but that biographical information is not necessary to understand the character. Harry's leg has become infected and he...

If by thesis you are thinking of themes for the story, there are lots of different ideas that you can explore. Hemingway's stories usually present what is known as the Hemingway Code Hero, and...

Harry comes to understand that "writing equals life and not writing equals death" (Marc Seals). The time to write was over and now all the things he had held back (because he feared he did not...

In Ernest Hemingway's short story "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," a writer, Harry, and his wealthy wife, Helen, are stranded on an African savanna waiting for help to arrive. They have been on safari...

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...

It has always been my opinion that the reason for Hemingway's switch to stream of consciousness is because Harry is dying. It realy gets inside his head and sees his fear of dying, whereas before,...

Harry is a bitter man at the beginning of the story. He is harboring resentment towards his wife and wonders why he married her. He is also dying from an infection in his leg (gangrene). He...

Harry is reflecting on his life because he feels he is dying. He is a dedicated writer but feels that being married to a rich woman is not only weakening his character but interfering with his...

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....

One critic said, "Realistic fiction is often opposed to romantic fiction: the romance is said to present life as we would have it be, more picturesque, more adventurous, more heroic than the...

The text of Hemingway's story says that the animal is a leopard, not a "white tiger." There are no tigers in Africa, white or any other color. This is part of the epigraph: Close to the western...

The structure of the story is complex as Hemingway moves around in time. Primarily, it is divided between the events of the present, as Harry lays dying at the camp on the African plain with his...

Hemingway's protagonist in the story is Harry, a writer facing his death from gangrene, the result of failing to put antiseptic on a scratch on his knee before it became infected. The majority of...

Certainly, in one sense, every piece of literature is a reflection of its author, as you can hardly write about something convincingly that you have not lived, to a certain extent, yourself....