YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest Gaines
Essays 361 - 390
can see that the Hills, which the man remarks are like White Elephants, "refer to the shape of the belly of a pregnant woman, and ...
hero may have incredible moral fiber, but have a tendency to love women he can never have. Tragic flaws, if one looks at any story...
first publish Three Stories & Ten Poems in 1923 in Paris ("A Chronology" PG). In 1926 , the well known work The Sun Also Rises wou...
the position of the wound. He has been wounded in a way that precludes his ability to have sex and this seems to serve as the trag...
psyche which he has not yet lost. The book did not reach as high a level of commercial success as further books such as Farewell t...
of his less knowledgeable subjects. There were several basic principals that Machiavelli put forth for his new princes-to-be. Fir...
about many things ranging from bullfighting and big game hunting to political causes such as the Spanish Civil War and World War I...
Park and published his earliest stories and poems in his high school newspaper. Upon his graduation in 1917 Hemingway worked six m...
became the elite of the country, marginalizing the remaining portions of the population. And while the freed slaves constituted t...
doesnt let this bother her in the least (Hurston, 1999). Interestingly, despite Janies assertiveness and her obvious independen...
by Gertrude Stein was a term she gave to a generation of men and women whose experiences in World War I undermined their belief in...
is the final destiny for man" (Becker, 1973, p. ix). While the basis of his theory may explore that mans anxiety stems from his fe...
judgements about his surroundings came as naturally as breathing, yet he was raised with a cultural model that stressed that child...
he tells her that he never loved her when she asks: Dont you love me?" to which he replies "No...I dont think so. I never have" (H...
each other often about literary topics as well as the war (Tender is the Night). It was during this time in France that Fitzger...
suffered a severe leg wound and was twice decorated by the Italian government. His affair with an American nurse, Agnes von Kurows...
write about" (Anonymous Brainstorm Page IV-A, 2002; iv-a.htm). Also as mentioned, his stories were not always, if ever, truly h...
man (A Farewell to Arms Symbolism, 2002). There are also positive associations with rain in this novel (A Farewell to Arms Symb...
done in their lives as they see no hope in the future. Their American Dream is one that came smashing down with the pessimistic re...
wives, women always seemed to entice Hemingway and then he would somehow lose interest in them and move on. In better understandin...
to salvage their relationship. When a scratch on his leg goes untreated with iodine, it becomes gangrenous, and as he lay dying, ...
those standards of conduct which generations before World War I appeared to accept as adequate and perfectly satisfactory" (Meyers...
that the other poppy "I gave to you" (line 8). In the third stanza, Rosenberg writes that the "sandbags narrowed" (line 9). The t...
powerful setting. In the title itself we imagine hills and we envision hills that look like white elephants. This could clearly...
case is the baby that Jig carries (Bernardo). Hemingway composed this story masterfully through his choice of language. ...
- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...
She has been given the opportunity, or so she thinks, to finally live a life that is solely hers. There is a powerful sense of fre...
errors, and so kind to people that I always thought of him as a sort of saint" (Hemingway 88). This is clearly a very high claim t...
Fitzgerald was seeking in his style and the forms that were emerging in relationship to the 20s. Berman notes how many of his stor...
were old With which she followed my poor fathers body Like Niobe, all tears;-why she, even she,- O God! a beast that wants discour...