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Essays 211 - 240
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...
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 ...
It was Fitzgerald who is credited with coining the phrase Jazz Age to describe the 1920s. During this time, the spectre of war an...
conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...
three oclock. What kind of hour is that to go to bed?" (Hemingway). His colleague says "He stays up because he likes it" (Hemingwa...
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 ...
"girl" in reference to this female, a choice which would appear to indicate that she is somewhat younger than her companion yet 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...
government (Gascoigne). Hemingway drew upon this war experience in several of his most famous novels, such as A Farewell to Arms...
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...
those standards of conduct which generations before World War I appeared to accept as adequate and perfectly satisfactory" (Meyers...
some of the local women, but he does not follow through on this desires because - above all else - he wishes to avoid consequences...
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...
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 ...
indicates they are seeking some answers, some way to self fulfillment. In this particular short story we see the doubt related t...
This sets the stage for a pessimistic story, despite any optimistic elements. This sense of pessimism is also one that is very u...
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...
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....
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 ...
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 ...
Macomber." Review of the Binaries Argument One way that Hemmingway explored the question...
contrast in each of these dualistic aspects of the setting reflects the dichotomous void that exists between the two central chara...
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...