mojo‚ his smooth talk with the ladies‚ and that insane chest hair. Harry Tasker has those chiseled features‚ gigantic arms‚ and that spotless white shirt. They all have special qualities that make them appealing to women. F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway both portray their men like these super spies. In a few of their stories‚ the men who are present need to have traditional masculine qualities to get women. The two writers make it seem like it is necessary to have an athletic body‚ survival
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Life Changing Events Ernest Hemingway in “ Soldier’s Home” represents the life of Harold Krebs as an example of the effects on people and communities as well as a country as a whole caused by wars. There appears to be a blatant lack of respect for the main character from family and friends. This lack of respect is shown through the author’s discussion of a lack of empathy‚ confidence‚ and lack of placement. Hemingway shows the reader a view of the returning soldier from war and his clear displacement
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Ernest Hemingway’s Spanish Civil War era stories‚ “The Capital of the World‚” “A Clean Well-Lighted Place‚” and sections of For Whom the Bell Tolls results in some of his greatest writings. Hemingway depicts Spain’s most important values and qualities: dignity‚ decorum‚ and courage. He does so metaphorically and often times reveals the big ideas through the little details. In “The Capital of the World‚” the second-rate matadors stay at a hotel called the Pension Luarca. “It is necessary for a bull
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Based on the stories I studied in the collection The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway‚ it seems Ernest Hemingway had a very naturalistic and pessimistic view of life. His stories often emphasize gruesome violence and tragic deaths or the pain the world has to offer in different places‚ such as lifelong shortcomings of character or tumultuous relationships. Naturalism is evident in that characters are never the masters of their fate. For good or for bad the world does not let on what’s in
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In the renowned novel The Sun Also Rises (1926) by Ernest Hemingway‚ there is a reoccurring theme of sexuality. The new mindset that the moderns have when it comes to relationships is that men and women should be able to enjoy their sexual relations without the commitment of being in a relationship‚ such as marriage. Men and women struggle with relationships and sexuality during the modern age because the women are confused as to what type of affection they want‚ the men are spiritually broken‚ and
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Ernest Hemingway’s interesting short story ‘’The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber’’ revolves around the strained relationships between Francis Macomber and his flippant wife‚ as they navigate the ups and downs of their lives together‚ along with their strange hunting guide Robert Wilson. Ernest Hemingway sets the story in the rugged wilds of the African savannah‚ representing the vast and dangerous territory of the relationships between the characters. Francis Macomber is a rather mild mannered
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just a speck. A small‚ insignificant part of a larger heterogeneous group in which our life has no value. Using his short story “A Clean‚ Well-Lighted Place” as the means with the literary elements of characterization and light and dark imagery‚ Hemingway proposes the aforementioned concepts and advances the notion that a single person’s life has no value and is meaningless. In the short story‚ characterization through the words of the older waiter is utilized to reveal traits of the old man
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feelings expressed by the narrator of the story‚ but sometimes they may be dissimilar‚ even sharply opposed. The characters in a story may be regarded even as sad‚ but we sense that the author regards it as funny‚ as in Ernest Hemingway’s "A Clean‚ Well Lighted Place"‚ where Hemingway purposively "sets up the aura" of an apathetic tone; using diction‚ imagery‚ and a third person point of view‚ by not directly confronting any emotions (Edel 270). The indifferent use of diction in "A Clean‚ Well Lighted
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“In the fall when the rains came the leaves all fell from the chestnut tree and the branches were bare and the trunks black with rain.” In A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway‚ Hemingway utilizes the weather to portray the effects of war. Rain is one element that Hemingway highlights in the book to emphasize the war. He describes the setting in detail to emphasize how much of an impact it has made. In the novel‚ Hemingway’s usage of rain symbolizes death and despair. In the first chapter of the novel
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Elephants”‚ Ernest Hemingway brings the reader to a train station somewhere between Barcelona and Madrid. An American and a girl are having an argument that could be seen as trivial on the surface‚ but is actually a painful discussion about aborting their child. The much older American tries to persuade the young girl to give the baby up in hopes that he might be able to leave her without any obligations left behind‚ but she seems to want to keep the child and start a life together. Hemingway uses symbolism
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