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Kansas City Star, Hemingway himself "left Kansas City in the spring of 1918 and did not return for 10 years, [becoming] the first ...

an emotional disability that prevented Frederic from enjoying nearly all of his life. He could see the natural beauty of Italy, b...

Fitzgerald was seeking in his style and the forms that were emerging in relationship to the 20s. Berman notes how many of his stor...

in the Italian ambulance corps during World War I. Henry meets and falls in love with Catherine Barkley, a British nurse. Soon af...

developed what became known as the definitive Hemingway narrative style -- dispassionate, objective and oftentimes ironic. Life i...

war, his writing talents waned but soon a short novel, The Old Man and the Sea, would emerge in 1952 ("Hemingway" PG). He won the ...

that Santiago spends fighting with the mighty fish. This part of the novel demonstrates for the reader the courage, strength of wi...

and A Canary for One are three such pieces that are a reflection of Hemingways typical nature in that they befit the very essence ...

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

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

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...

desperation or dismay of the narrator whereas Hemingways story leaves us to infer the desperation, but the ending is very similar....

he presents. There is pain and violence and death in Hemingways world, and he struggles to show his readers this aspect of life....

hero may have incredible moral fiber, but have a tendency to love women he can never have. Tragic flaws, if one looks at any story...

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...

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...

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...

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...

It was Fitzgerald who is credited with coining the phrase Jazz Age to describe the 1920s. During this time, the spectre of war an...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

the novelette" (Bruccoli; Hemingway; Baughman 121). This critic was responding to a statement made by Hemingway wherein he claimed...

of "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" as something of a metaphor for what is generally referred to as the "war between the...