YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Reflections of an Era in Soldiers Home by Ernest Hemingway
Essays 61 - 90
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...
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...
a sense of belief and stability. However, one is never really sure if the priest is really that devoted due to the general nature ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
desperation or dismay of the narrator whereas Hemingways story leaves us to infer the desperation, but the ending is very similar....
those standards of conduct which generations before World War I appeared to accept as adequate and perfectly satisfactory" (Meyers...
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...
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...
It was Fitzgerald who is credited with coining the phrase Jazz Age to describe the 1920s. During this time, the spectre of war an...
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...
Bowker has faced tremendous adversity within his life; having addressed his combat circumstances with a combination of strength an...
In this paper consisting of two pages Philip Caputo's memoir reflects the Vietnam War experience as a whole as it represents the s...
adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway short story, directed by Robert Young and produced in 1997. The protagonist of this short film ...
front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...
nowhere, even in his hometown of Oak Park, Illinois. So he joined fellow writers like F. Scott Fitzgerald on a seemingly endless ...
In eight pages this paper examines how the outdoors are represented in Hemingway's writings and the conflict between man and natur...
bad luck at this point, a condition which truly makes him an individual alone, for Manolin must leave him and work for another boa...
world of the innermost self (Burgess and See Also Lynn). This essay examines one of this writers most critically acclaimed books...
The relationship between ancient sacrifice and bullfighting in Spain is examined in this analysis of 'Death in the Afternoon' by E...