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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...

aching muscles, "Nick felt happy," as he has "left everything behind, the need for thinking, the need to write, other needs" (Hemi...

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

adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway short story, directed by Robert Young and produced in 1997. The protagonist of this short film ...

are giving in to another, and also demonstrating how they are not necessarily self confident or overly concerned about themselves ...

Uncle Sam finally entered the First World War in 1917, Hemingway tried to enlist, but was constantly rejected because of his poor ...

an unnamed American man and his girlfriend, Jig. Theyre sitting at a train station in the valley of the river Ebro; its barren and...

day. There is no reason to speculate that it will not rise tomorrow. Hence, there is a quandary. There is logic that considers sci...

Hemingways protagonists often suffer war wounds similar to his; "excoriate the mother" as he did; or "reflect contemptuously on th...

salon business remains quite healthy. Exposure cautions eventually extended to tanning beds as well, with the added caveat that n...

letters and "The letters cover everything from the emptiness Hemingway felt upon completing a novel to their shared loneliness" (P...

closer to home, meaning that the consequences of the war are more far-reaching than they are to Nick, his counterpart. "In Another...

to salvage their relationship. When a scratch on his leg goes untreated with iodine, it becomes gangrenous, and as he lay dying, ...

wives, women always seemed to entice Hemingway and then he would somehow lose interest in them and move on. In better understandin...

this relationship, which is entails infidelity and, therefore, mistrust and lies. Similarly, miscommunication and infidelity pla...

powerful setting. In the title itself we imagine hills and we envision hills that look like white elephants. This could clearly...

is often overlooked as a Hemingway story because it addresses a very different sort of theme. But, it is a timeless theme and it i...

- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...

the city may appear attractive and it certainly attracted Nick, it is hollow. He expresses this by returning home to the midwest. ...

in the promised land did so through the exploitation of the land, its resources, and its natives" as is the case with Jay Gatsby (...

his personal life, and physically; hes a bigot, hes a racist, and he has a mistress who he makes little effort to hide from his wi...

no success at all; that belongs to the people who employ the hard workers. But the dream persists, and Gatsby seems to achieve it,...

important to remember that at the time Fitzgerald wrote, "immigrants were coming to the United States by the millions because they...

intelligence and talent to work in ways that are less than reputable in order to pursue an illusion of beauty. Making his fortune ...

no face, instead, the eyes are behind an enormous pair of glasses which are sitting on a non-existent nose (Fitzgerald). Nick, who...

not abhor, which is very important in setting up the story: "Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from...

same time he undercuts Gatsby by telling readers that he made his money illegally; he was a bootlegger (he sold illegal whiskey du...

for that reason its possible that he colors the accounts he gives. However, he is the closest thing we have to a neutral observer,...

book, Benjamin Schreier claims that Gatsby, if not actually black-an unusual interpretation to be sure-is someone of color; he bas...

shaped by trying to achieve the American dream, but by experiencing what occurs when others achieve and pass on the values of weal...