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developed what became known as the definitive Hemingway narrative style -- dispassionate, objective and oftentimes ironic. Life i...

quotes Gertrude Stein as calling Hemingways set "the lost generation" (Roth, 450). Although only a few of his stories and novels a...

Hemingway offers the tone and internal dialogue of Jake that sets the stage for understanding his emotional rut: "This was Brett t...

indicates they are seeking some answers, some way to self fulfillment. In this particular short story we see the doubt related t...

wants nothing more than to earn a decent living to provide for his wife Marie and their three daughters. He transports visitors o...

This sets the stage for a pessimistic story, despite any optimistic elements. This sense of pessimism is also one that is very u...

him that she wants to stop talking about it, indicating she feels completely powerless and is just going to do it and get it over ...

work around the reality of war, both writing of war and the times after a way. He was a drinker, a fisherman, an adventurer and a ...

in the story and perhaps the most like Hemingway himself. He is a man seeking comfort and simplicity and meaning while lost in dep...

writer, personal experience is simply the staring point, as they combine lived experience with created characters in order to pres...

his mother. Prior to the war, Hemingway lets the reader know that Krebs was in tune with small town life. He attended a Methodist ...

gone with him there are several ways in which this could have altered the story. The first example will discuss how the story coul...

the good place" (Hemingway 29). The same way in which nature balanced Hemingways perspective of the world around him, Adams aff...

Hemingway makes clear his own feelings even without stating them by delving more into the older waiters character than the younger...

local bar. An old man sits in the corner slowly becoming drunk over the course of the evening. At the end of the evening, the old ...

of Jake finding purpose and meaning in life through a love relationship, as Brett makes it clear that she is unwilling to renounce...

story is accepting and understanding of the old mans emotional needs. He points out to the younger waiter that the caf? is "clean ...

discuss the men. In the article concerning Hemingway the author notes that "Description so vivid that it enables one to be there i...

several symbolic connotations in this name, primarily the contrast to the happy little dance called the Jig and the fact that she ...

their lives and their emotions. These men did not need a woman to encourage them or to make them feel like they were men. Inter...

thinking" (Wittkowski 2). The main thrust of such interpretations is that Santiago, in his actions, is in fact an "imitatio Christ...

some of the local women, but he does not follow through on this desires because - above all else - he wishes to avoid consequences...

chose to make his sentences histories of actual perceptions and thoughts, an accomplishment recognized by biographer Carlos Baker,...

great pain, screaming, the arrogance of the doctor comes out in the following: "But her screams are not important. I dont hear the...

they write: attempting to arrive at some truth about a topic. In Hemingways case, a good argument can be made for his attempt to u...

to have a baby. They tried as often as Mrs. Elliot could stand it. They tried in Boston after they were married and they tried c...

and repelled by." This writer disagrees concerning the assumption that there was a "blurring" of sex roles during this period. Hem...

woman who is significant, but rather how she makes the male character feel. This is particularly true of young women, who almost f...

can readily see how this outlook is what has cast Krebs into the sinking hole from which he only somewhat struggles to get free; r...

in the Italian ambulance corps during World War I. Henry meets and falls in love with Catherine Barkley, a British nurse. Soon af...