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Essays 151 - 180
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...
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...
us are perhaps afraid to pursue the thing that would make us the most happy but is likely to also be the most risky. We may fear ...
- 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...
case is the baby that Jig carries (Bernardo). Hemingway composed this story masterfully through his choice of language. ...
powerful setting. In the title itself we imagine hills and we envision hills that look like white elephants. This could clearly...
those standards of conduct which generations before World War I appeared to accept as adequate and perfectly satisfactory" (Meyers...
conventions of gender as she, or Jake, thinks she is" (The Sun Also Rises (1926) Lecture Notes (Last Day of Discussion)). This fal...
and resume business as usual. This was the America that greeted an injured young soldier named Ernest Hemingway. The place he lo...
strolled down town, read and went to bed. He was still a hero to his two young sisters" (Hemingway 112). He was a hero because he ...
a sense of belief and stability. However, one is never really sure if the priest is really that devoted due to the general nature ...
is not to abolish the death penalty but to "abolish the discrimination (which, he adds, favor murderers of blacks and therefore fa...
three oclock. What kind of hour is that to go to bed?" (Hemingway). His colleague says "He stays up because he likes it" (Hemingwa...
conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...
It was Fitzgerald who is credited with coining the phrase Jazz Age to describe the 1920s. During this time, the spectre of war an...
than half an hour from the bridge, if that is possible.... How are you called? I have forgotten. It was a bad sign to him that he ...
alcoholism. That essential plot is one filled with a powerful sense of seeking ones identity and a sense of loneliness. In...
a significant element of their philosophies, with each man sharing many aspects with the other, while at the same time upholding t...
choked with it, so that they die and fall early. This of course is an extended metaphor for the men themselves, who will also die ...
to give up, even though he demonstrates clear weaknesses. Santiagos pride pushes him so far that he risks his life, stupid...
letters and "The letters cover everything from the emptiness Hemingway felt upon completing a novel to their shared loneliness" (P...
the novelette" (Bruccoli; Hemingway; Baughman 121). This critic was responding to a statement made by Hemingway wherein he claimed...
of raucous, unchecked hullabaloo, drinking binges that last from morning to night..." (Scalero 489). Hemingways heroes spend their...
really did what he wanted to do. As one critic notes, he is "a disillusioned writer" (Arthur). But, in reality he is far more than...
pictured offering ironic commentaries on sculpture and art, with his conversation peppered with "allusions to Samuel Johnson, Sain...
Frederic and Hemingway both drove ambulances, and were both wounded, and both fell in love with their nurses. But, to take a trivi...
adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway short story, directed by Robert Young and produced in 1997. The protagonist of this short film ...