Ernest Hemingway Research Paper
Adam Miller
Professor Langham
13 November 2014
Baseball, War, and Romance Both written by Ernest Hemingway, “The Three Day Blow” and “A Way You’ll Never Be” are short stories that focus on the life of Nick Adams. The two short stories center on important events that take place in Nick Adams’s life as a young man. Hemingway uses these events to show how Nick Adams’s past experiences affect him in the present. Based around baseball, war, and romance, these stories are significant by explaining how past experiences can have a lasting impact on a young man. “The Three Day Blow” and “A Way You’ll Never Know” are short stories that emphasize Nick Adams’s experiences with baseball, World War I, and Marjorie. “The Three Day Blow” is a short story by Ernest Hemingway that describes Nick Adams’s love for the sport of baseball. At the beginning of the short story, Nick Adams and his older friend Bill Smith are in Bill 's family cottage in Michigan, and they are enjoying their time drinking liquor and talking about sports, especially baseball (McSweeney 1). Nick and Bill mention the trade of Heinie Zimmerman from the Chicago Cubs to the New York Giants, which takes place in 1916 before the American entrance into World War I (Flora 2). Hemingway uses the baseball references in “The Three Day Blow” to show a timeline of events in that happen in 1916 (Hurley 45). The references include Nick and Bill’s mention of John McGraw 's recent acquisition of Heinie Zimmerman, transacted on Monday, August 28, 1916 (Hurley 45). As a result of Hemingway’s references to baseball, he enables his readers to establish the precise date of the story (Hurley 47). In addition, Hemingway also encourages his readers to reconstruct external events that happen in baseball from the time of the Heinie Zimmerman trade on Monday, August 28, 1916, until the conclusion of the three-day blow on Saturday, September 30, 1916, a date that coincides with the end of the Giants ' winning streak (Hurley 47).
Professor Langham
13 November 2014
Baseball, War, and Romance Both written by Ernest Hemingway, “The Three Day Blow” and “A Way You’ll Never Be” are short stories that focus on the life of Nick Adams. The two short stories center on important events that take place in Nick Adams’s life as a young man. Hemingway uses these events to show how Nick Adams’s past experiences affect him in the present. Based around baseball, war, and romance, these stories are significant by explaining how past experiences can have a lasting impact on a young man. “The Three Day Blow” and “A Way You’ll Never Know” are short stories that emphasize Nick Adams’s experiences with baseball, World War I, and Marjorie. “The Three Day Blow” is a short story by Ernest Hemingway that describes Nick Adams’s love for the sport of baseball. At the beginning of the short story, Nick Adams and his older friend Bill Smith are in Bill 's family cottage in Michigan, and they are enjoying their time drinking liquor and talking about sports, especially baseball (McSweeney 1). Nick and Bill mention the trade of Heinie Zimmerman from the Chicago Cubs to the New York Giants, which takes place in 1916 before the American entrance into World War I (Flora 2). Hemingway uses the baseball references in “The Three Day Blow” to show a timeline of events in that happen in 1916 (Hurley 45). The references include Nick and Bill’s mention of John McGraw 's recent acquisition of Heinie Zimmerman, transacted on Monday, August 28, 1916 (Hurley 45). As a result of Hemingway’s references to baseball, he enables his readers to establish the precise date of the story (Hurley 47). In addition, Hemingway also encourages his readers to reconstruct external events that happen in baseball from the time of the Heinie Zimmerman trade on Monday, August 28, 1916, until the conclusion of the three-day blow on Saturday, September 30, 1916, a date that coincides with the end of the Giants ' winning streak (Hurley 47).
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