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gloried in the proud history of the plantation South that secured a place of honor for the aristocrat, and yet he abhorred the opp...

so strongly rooted in the collective consciousness that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethica...

content nor particularly happy with her lot in life. She brags to her husband and it is obvious that she could best him in almost...

End of Something," "Cat in the Rain," and "The Big Two-Hearted River (Parts I and II)." First well describe the stories, than anal...

desperation or dismay of the narrator whereas Hemingways story leaves us to infer the desperation, but the ending is very similar....

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

generation." This sets the stage for a pessimistic story, despite any optimistic elements. One aspect of this story that seems t...

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

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

of fruit trees and beyond the plain the mountains were brown and bare. There was fighting in the mountains" (Hemingway 3). The t...

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...

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

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 ...

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...

those standards of conduct which generations before World War I appeared to accept as adequate and perfectly satisfactory" (Meyers...

government (Gascoigne). Hemingway drew upon this war experience in several of his most famous novels, such as A Farewell to Arms...

three oclock. What kind of hour is that to go to bed?" (Hemingway). His colleague says "He stays up because he likes it" (Hemingwa...

who suffered a serious ax wound and is lying on the top bunk, above his laboring wife. When he heard this comment he "rolled over ...

conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...

a sense of belief and stability. However, one is never really sure if the priest is really that devoted due to the general nature ...

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 ...

people. In the United States there is no such thing as a real bullfight, or the bull runs that take place in Spain. It seems, when...

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...

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 ...

conventions of gender as she, or Jake, thinks she is" (The Sun Also Rises (1926) Lecture Notes (Last Day of Discussion)). This fal...

to those who fight it but everyone who is touched by it. We begin with gender, because of the persona Hemingway created, and with...

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 ...