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unworthy, because he is not sexually active, something that truly defines a man. In essence, the two, Jake and Brett, have a ve...

case is the baby that Jig carries (Bernardo). Hemingway composed this story masterfully through his choice of language. ...

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

(Melville 2435). The crew were drawn to Billy Budd like a moth to a flame, and Melville wrote, "They all love him... Anybody will...

about many things ranging from bullfighting and big game hunting to political causes such as the Spanish Civil War and World War I...

Park and published his earliest stories and poems in his high school newspaper. Upon his graduation in 1917 Hemingway worked six m...

my being, do I myself still for ever centrally disport in mute calm; and while ponderous planets of unwaning woe revolve round me,...

personal morality were simply accepted, not questioned during their lives. Because American society as a whole had become better...

Ishmael as he relates to Ahab and his quest for the whale. The second section examines the survival of Ishmael. The last section o...

freely expressing their sinful temptations to the minister. The cause of Reverend Hoopers alienation, it would appear, was not an...

journey. Immediately, the reader is shocked by Ahabs assertion and assumption that he is like God, that he holds the ultimate po...

psyche which he has not yet lost. The book did not reach as high a level of commercial success as further books such as Farewell t...

worthy. With the ideals of Enlightenment we are given a much more complex train of thought as one must also examine the good of a ...

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

great deal around the fiesta, or the action of partying and escaping reality. But, with each step or each sense of hope the charac...

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

alcoholism. That essential plot is one filled with a powerful sense of seeking ones identity and a sense of loneliness. In...

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

endeavors to avoid such a punishment by doing an exemplary job. Nevertheless, trouble develops and Billy seeks the advice of an ol...

done in their lives as they see no hope in the future. Their American Dream is one that came smashing down with the pessimistic re...

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

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...

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

of the lives and social customs of the Marquesas people. The story itself is not just an example of Herman Melvilles fertile imag...

served to deflect and in part falsify them" (Melville). Now at first look these lines appear to be nothing that would indicate ...

why he engaged in such long sentences. Anyone who has read "Moby Dick," as well as "Billy Budd," will quickly recognize how Melvil...

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

Melville: "he was ... a gentleman adventurer in the barbarous outposts of human experience" (147). Melvilles Bartleby the Scriven...

- he refuses to take nourishment or leave his place of business. Instead of taking a sympathetic view of his employee, the narrat...

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