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This paper examines how Joseph Heller's Catch 22 reflects the concepts featured in Kate Chopin's The Awakening, Ralph Ellison's In...

injured while enjoying an African hunting adventure with his wife, Helen. The primary theme is death, and how man often puts off ...

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...

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

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...

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 ...

he presents. There is pain and violence and death in Hemingways world, and he struggles to show his readers this aspect of life....

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...

doesnt let this bother her in the least (Hurston, 1999). Interestingly, despite Janies assertiveness and her obvious independen...

write about" (Anonymous Brainstorm Page IV-A, 2002; iv-a.htm). Also as mentioned, his stories were not always, if ever, truly h...

of "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" as something of a metaphor for what is generally referred to as the "war between the...

impotent as the result of a war injury; Lady Brett Ashley, Jakes former Army nurse and ex-lover, who had, after the breakup, taken...

It was Fitzgerald who is credited with coining the phrase Jazz Age to describe the 1920s. During this time, the spectre of war an...

decide to go out on his own and catch a fish so that he was not unlucky any longer. He is also a very old man. In these respects o...

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...

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

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 ...

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 ...

to give up, even though he demonstrates clear weaknesses. Santiagos pride pushes him so far that he risks his life, stupid...

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

is also presented in a manner that makes the reader see what a sad and lonely life she has likely led. This is generally inferred ...

women: "During the early 20th century the term new woman came to be used in the popular press. More young women than ever were goi...

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

so closely related is dangerous for the reader. Its tempting to think that this is nothing more than Hemingway retelling events in...

In a paper of eight pages, the writer looks at the works of Ernest Hemingway and Tim O'Brien. The treatment of "truth" in a fictio...