YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Symbolism in Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway
Essays 211 - 240
Invisible Man, a searing portrait of the way in which society ignores the African-Americans in its midst-making them "invisible." ...
fond remembrances of what the lake was like during his childhood and how he would get up quietly, dress and "start out in the cano...
in order to understand the emergence and potency of nationalism we must rely on social communication. That reliance is particular...
scholarship addressing the character of Pearl have seen her as the "sin-child, the unholy result" of an adulterous love and a symb...
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 ...
his mother. Prior to the war, Hemingway lets the reader know that Krebs was in tune with small town life. He attended a Methodist ...
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...
Hemingway offers the tone and internal dialogue of Jake that sets the stage for understanding his emotional rut: "This was Brett t...
indicates they are seeking some answers, some way to self fulfillment. In this particular short story we see the doubt related t...
wants nothing more than to earn a decent living to provide for his wife Marie and their three daughters. He transports visitors o...
Hemingway makes clear his own feelings even without stating them by delving more into the older waiters character than the younger...
story is accepting and understanding of the old mans emotional needs. He points out to the younger waiter that the caf? is "clean ...
thinking" (Wittkowski 2). The main thrust of such interpretations is that Santiago, in his actions, is in fact an "imitatio Christ...
fresh in the minds of many leaders, this work takes on many topics. One man struggles with his political ideals but in the process...
discuss the men. In the article concerning Hemingway the author notes that "Description so vivid that it enables one to be there i...
so that when he dies, it is all the more a shock to the reader. The point of view, though it is told by an omniscient narrator is ...
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...
some of the local women, but he does not follow through on this desires because - above all else - he wishes to avoid consequences...
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 ...
Such a setting, she points out, simply added to the fear and accusations of witchcraft against innocent people (Jacobs). I...
of Jake finding purpose and meaning in life through a love relationship, as Brett makes it clear that she is unwilling to renounce...
of its treaties with Native Americans. According to the Treaty of Fort Laramie, a treaty the United States entered into with the ...
of Spiritus Mundi" (Yeats, 1920). "Spiritus Mundi" can be translated as the "Spirit of the Universe" which Yeats saw as holding i...
This sets the stage for a pessimistic story, despite any optimistic elements. This sense of pessimism is also one that is very u...
gone with him there are several ways in which this could have altered the story. The first example will discuss how the story coul...
the good place" (Hemingway 29). The same way in which nature balanced Hemingways perspective of the world around him, Adams aff...
"association of love with life, and the consequent indissolubility and self-sufficiency of the relationship" (Tyler). However, lov...
The boy was intrigued by Santiagos resolve and had faith this man he admired would come through. On one of their early fishing ex...