Ernest Hemingway Essay

Ernest Miller Hemingway wrote many novels, short stories and he was an all-American journalist. His stories were mostly known to be fiction and he was a good enough author to win the Nobel Prize in literature in 1954. In his two stories, “Cat in the Rain,” and “Hills like White Elephants,” he uses the theme of marriage between husband and wife and what each person wants and how their wants throw some conflict with what their spouse would like. In both stories, it would seem as if the husband in…

situations during the war. This is shown in characters such as Jake, Mike, Brett and Bill from The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway is able to portray these characters as lost by making them wander aimlessly from place to place and also by filling the empty voids in their lives with alcohol and other meaningless activities to block out the outside world. One major way Hemingway is able to show that the characters are lost is through them drinking excessive amounts of alcohol.…

When placed in a new environment, one must adapt. The adaptations that occur may affect an individual’s life deeply, but what happens when one returns to a former environment with new clarity? Does the individual or environment triumph? Throughout Ernest Hemingway’s short story “Soldier’s Home,” the main character, Krebs, struggles with his identity after returning home from war. Telling lies and losing his sense of war-changed self afflicts him. Krebs’ family and society pressure him into…

transpiring between order and the disorder of the world. This created a distinction in society between an insider and an outsider. After World War I had ended, there was a great shift between pre war life, to post war life. In The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, the protagonist Jake Barnes was a soldier in the war. He struggles with his masculinity after the war as he is surrounded by those who he believes are manlier than he is. With this constant struggle, he defines himself as the…

Ernest Hemingway’s writings thrive off of his lifetime experiences and opinions and display his racist and sexist mindset. Ernest Hemingway's short stories “Indian Camp” and “The Doctor And The Doctor’s Wife” transition into adulthood where grown ups model that racism and sexism are acceptable characteristics of man. During this In “Indian Camp” Nick and his father go to Indian Camp to birth a woman's baby who has been trying to have the baby for two days and the baby was coming out upside down…

Ernest Hemingway’s “Soldier’s Home” is a short story about an American soldier who has recently returned home to Oklahoma after serving in WWI. The soldier is named Harold Krebs and he is living at his parents’ house. He comes home later than most of the other soldiers came home so he misses out on all the elaborate welcome home greetings. When Krebs first comes home he doesn’t want to tell his war story, but after a while he wants to tell his story and no one will listen to him. All the people…

tall, very well built if you did not mind that length of bone, dark, his hair cropped like an oarsman, rather thin-lipped, and was considered handsome” though his life falls apart when he “had just shown himself, very publicly, to be a coward” (Hemingway 122). Macomber’s wife, Margaret, has gotten tired of Macomber’s cowardice habits, for he is no true man. For this reason, she is drawn to Wilson, a hunter, who is far more courageous than her husband of eleven years. This lack of manliness in…

Nobel Prize winner Ernest Hemingway shaped American Literature during the nineteenth century. It is no surprise that his short stories can be found in nearly every high school and college library across the States. Hemingway was an advent outdoorsmen, a decorated war hero who earned the coveted Italian Silver Medal of Valor, and an accomplished literary genius. His short story, “Big Two- Hearted River” describes a physical and emotional journey that Nick undertakes after returning home from…

In the story “Soldier's Home” by Ernest Hemingway’s is a story about a man named Harold Krebs who went to war in 1917 from a Methodist college in Kansas. He returns from the war in 1919. The title of this story A Soldiers home is a great description of the story the reason being its symbolize the meaning of the story it describes how retired soldiers from the military live in the same town and tells there war experience In "A Soldier's Home", the main character is Krebs. He is a soldier that…

The simple fishing story told in The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway represents Hemingway’s life and writing success through the character portrayed in the book. Santiago’s desire to achieve his goals of catching a great fish and superior recognition in the fishing community is exactly like the author who wants the same in his field. Hemingway communicates his inner struggle as a writer and his perceptions of the world through the simplicity of this fishing story. He achieves this via…