Literary Analysis Of Ernest Hemingway's 'Death In The Afternoon'

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While serving as an ambulance driver during WWI in Italy, Ernest hemingway injured his knee and was sent to a hospital. There he wrote a story about his stay in that hospital. In another country is what Hemingway thought when noticing the cultural differences because he was an american. He also wrote “Death in the Afternoon” in Italy after retrieving remains of women that were in a blast accident. Disguising himself in one of his own stories as an nameless american soldier. This story represents a dark but inspiring point in his life. Hemingway takes his most inspiring life experiences and creates a realistic story that shares the special moments he cherishes. He always stays writes by his one true sentence."From things that …show more content…
You can definitely tell by the setting and the way the characters talk but there 's nothing funny about what goes on in this story. Everything from explaining how the major would get tortured taunted by people in the streets with his friends after being injured in combat then having to go to a hospital 4 months to be cured. Just a simple fact that he was not accepted in his own country creates depression amongst the characters and the reader can see that. The town is very serious all the words of very straightforward no beating around the bush. There 's not a single time where the soldier or the manger laughs or cries but just talks and very strong manner. This is obvious by the way Hemingway sets up the dialogue after being paired with one of the characters setting up the situation with narration. Just the fact that this takes place during a time of war already give the impression that this is not going to be a situation where a reader receive any other emotion but sadness and …show more content…
This story is telling readers how he felt during that time through a character that indirectly represents him. A lot of his stories are like this talking about his life and what he felt during those most memorable times. This goes back to his true sentence, “From things that have happened and from things as they exist in from all things that you know and all those you can not know you make something through your inventions that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and a lot and you make it alive and if you make it well enough you give it in mortality.” This is exactly what happen when he does with his life experiences and translate that into his stories based off of this true sentence. He felt that this time in his life was very grey and serious. But he found hope in the people that he talked