Allen Welsh Dulles

Generally speaking, there are two types of people. There are those who are content with their lives, and there are those who are not. Ernest Hemingway delves into a common reason behind many people’s discontent in his short story, “A Clean, Well – Lighted Place.” The story follows an older waiter as he and his younger counterpart serve an old man in the middle of the night. The younger waiter wishes to go home early, but the elder does not mind the time. Time spent at work is nothing to those…

Ernest Hemingway has left an influential and infinite impact on American Literature. He has left a strong influence on 20th century fiction through his most famous novels such as “ A Farewell to Arms”, “The Old Man and the Sea”, or “The Sun Also Rises”. Or his infamous short stories such as “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” and “The Nick Adams Stories”. To some he embodied characteristics of literary greats like Walt Whitman. Earl Rovit wrote, “He is like Whitman-wonderfully hidden in the…

An author flinches as a memory begins to resurface. Recalling the painful experience as if it were happening again, he transcribes it onto paper with each agonizing keystroke. When examining Ernest Hemingway’s works compared to his life experiences, the correlation between them is obvious. Hemingway found his inspiration in the most unlikely of places: from a lake in Michigan where he spent his summers as a boy to the medical wards during World War I. However, his experiences brought him to the…

In Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills like White Elephants, uses a conversation between a man and a girl to tell us a cruel story. The conflict between the man and the girl is their baby. The girl wants to keep the baby and establish a family with the man like her wish, but the man wants the girl to have an abortion. Throughout their conversation which dominates the story, the man is selfish and manipulates the girl. The man is misleading, exposing, captivating, and poisoning the girl; however, he is…

Ernest Hemingway’s deeper meaning to “Soldiers Home Ernest Hemingway has a deeper meaning to his story “Soldiers Home. Using Biographical and psychological critical reading strategies to analyze his short story, “Soldiers Home” it can be argued that Hemingway wanted to highlight the struggles returning soldiers faced when coming home from military service and to help others realize that the isolation is an ongoing issue that has yet to be solved. A young man named Krebs is the main character in…

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…

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…

Willie Bester is a mixed media artist who was born near Cape Town in 1956 and grew up as a mixed race, or coloured person, during the times of Apartheid (“Willie Bester (1956 – ).”). He displayed elements of his artistic abilities during his childhood, and soon grew up to put his negativity about his segregated surroundings into artwork (“Willie Bester (1956 – ).”). One of his most powerful works is titled “Forced Removals”, which showcases the displacement of people due to segregation. The…

A hero doesn’t need to have superhuman abilities like flight, superstrength, or invincibility. The attributes of a hero can be anyone who follows superb morals, make an effort to help anyone, and help make a difference in our world. The definition of a hero is based on people’s opinion of what a hero do to help people. While some people believe that a stereotypical comic superhero is a definition of a hero, others believe that a hero can be anyone. Ernest Hemingway, the famous author for a…

The old man can’t cut the line between the giant marlin and him because, Santiago is trying to prove to everyone that he could still catch fish on his own despite what other people think of him. By carefully analyzing key research, such as the novel, one can come up with a certain conclusion that the main character, Santiago represents the desires, the mentality, and the lifestyle that is identical to Hemingway's. In Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway portrays the old…