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series of misfortunes, but the hero endures, because it is this constant facing of death that defines life. The code hero makes ...

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...

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

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 ...

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...

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

of raucous, unchecked hullabaloo, drinking binges that last from morning to night..." (Scalero 489). Hemingways heroes spend their...

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...

because he is married to another woman and she will not compromise her morals or her principles. However, when she is offered a ch...

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...

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

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...

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...

yet, continued Gabriel, his voice falling into a softer inflection, there are always in gathering such as this sadder thoughts tha...

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

1984). They are "depicted as powerless, passive, and silent or, if they do act, as monstrous; Mrs. Mooney, after all, has the sens...

In the examination of the house she realizes that "during all those years she had never found out the name of the priest whose yel...

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

character. Looking at both works shows belies Martin Kearneys arguments and demonstrates that Joyce had an altogether different po...

isolates him from true intimacy. For example, when his wife walks past him, Gabriel longs "to run after her noiselessly, catch her...

also important to note something of Joyces take on the stories, comments he had made about them. In 1904 he is quoted as saying, o...

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...

the chapter "Penelope", the readers is somehow seduced into believing that Mollys thoughts and monologue are somehow unmediated (S...

joyce.html). His mother, Mary Jane Murray, was "ten years younger than Stanislaus, was an accomplished pianist whose life was domi...