The Life‚ Major Works‚ and Accomplishments of Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway is acknowledged as one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. Although Hemingway’s literature is praised‚ his novels and short stories provoke high amounts of critical response. His most recognizable works include The Sun Also Rises‚ A Farewell to Arms‚ and The Old Man and the Sea. Hemingway’s characters and themes were based on ideas of violence and masculinity. This has led critics to respond
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Comparing and Contrasting Masculinity and Prose Style in Ernest Hemingway and Raymond Carver. A Proposal. Published in 1925‚ E. Hemingway’s "Soldier’s Home" (Meyer 117-122) concerns a character named Krebs who has returned to a small town following a traumatic First World War experience. His masculinity in the story is an issue because his parents pressure him to ’grow up’‚ get married‚ and find a job. His discord with these expectations‚ makes him lose his temper with his mother. It is an expression
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The Elephant in the Room Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway is a very interesting story that can difficult for a reader to understand at first glance. The title plays a major role in this style of writing by Hemmingway. When a reader comes across this title‚ one most likely can notice that it is a simile as hills are being compared to white elephants. The young woman in the story‚ called Jig‚ is having drinks with an American man while waiting for a train at a station. The two discuss
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War I represents the inheritance of misery and sorrow for the generation that strains to receive some form of happiness‚ known as the lost generation. Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises is the perfect example of this generation after the war. Hemingway utilizes the description and symbolism of the characters in order to present the purposeless destruction of the lost generation. Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises begins
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While reading the story “A clean‚ well-lighted place” by Ernest Hemingway‚ the reader is given the perspectives of three characters: the old man‚ the younger waiter‚ and the old waiter. Hemingway uses an impartial omniscient narrator‚ who sees inside the minds of the characters‚ but the narrator doesn’t judge on their actions or thoughts. The narrator begins the story with the old man‚ and then moves the focus over to the younger waiter‚ and then ends the story with the old waiter. The reader gains
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Tone and Style in “Hills Like White Elephants” Ernest Hemingway is known for his sparse style of writing. In “Hills Like White Elephants” his style of writing is just that. “Hills Like White Elephants” exemplifies his style of writing along with a detailed description of the scenery and intense dialogue between the two main characters‚ the American man and Jig‚ throughout the story. Hemingway’s writing style‚ use of description‚ and dialogue enables the reader to figure out just what the man and
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“Hills Like White Elephants” Analysis Ernest Hemingway’s‚ “Iceberg Theory”‚ states‚ “If a writer of prose knows enough of what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader‚ if the writer is writing truly enough‚ will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing
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American author Ernest Hemingway once said: “Never think that war‚ no matter how necessary‚ nor how justified‚ is not a crime”. Through his quote‚ Hemingway conveys that war (In the context of an armed conflict between two nations) is criminal. Hemingway’s anti-war perspective was heavily influenced by World War 1‚ where he was nearly killed while serving the Red Cross as an ambulance driver. World War‚ in addition to influencing Ernest Hemingway’s anti-war perspective‚ also exemplifies the criminality
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In the Sun Also Rises‚ Ernest Hemingway uses visual imagery to suggest the idea that every good thing must come to an end. In the middle of chapter sixteen‚ after Jake and his friends watched the bullfights in Pamplona‚ rough storms have just passed through the city. Despite the wet and windy conditions‚ the “crowd was massed on the far side of the square” (Hemingway 182) ready to celebrate the festival with fireworks. The “fireworks king” was “standing above the head of the crowd to launch the balloons
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abandoned‚ representing the feeling of a veteran returning home from war. Hemingway represented Nick’s post war feelings via his environment‚ representing how home was no longer how it used it to be. When he returned from war‚ there was not even a town but instead rails and a burned-over country. There wasn’t even a trace of the thirteen saloons that were once there and the surface was burned to the ground. The setting Hemingway used is a reflection of Nick Adams’ feelings of loneliness. No one
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