Ernest J. Gaines

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…

The short story “Hills like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemmingway is about a couple that is sitting at a train station between Madrid and Barcalona struggling with a critical decision they are faced with. Hemmingway uses dialogue to tell the story and forces the reader to interpret what will happen next. The setting and symbolism gives the readers clues to understand the couple’s dilemma they are faced with. Hemmingway chose a public place for the setting for this story. This public place was…

The novel does not go into many details, thus leaving many parts of it to interpretation. We know the novel begins in the middle of a normal life after war. However, we also know that in a way this novel represents Hemingway’s life and experiences. Ernest Hemingway was considered the masculine man, after going through the war. Hemingway projects himself through Jake Barnes, his protagonist, of what masculinity is. And Harvey Mansfield’s Manliness states that the traditional core features of…

“The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” is a short story that has been deciphered in numerous ways. There are many different theories about the conclusion of this selection. For example, some critics believe that Margot Macomber and Robert Wilson came up with the evil scheme of murdering Francis Macomber. Other critics say that it was an accident and that Margot was trying to protect her husband from the charging water buffalo that was inches away from killing Francis. However, in the story…

“Hills like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Analysis & Minimalism Many of the most compelling works of fictional literature that are known today, are also some of the most descriptive pieces of writing. Writers of the 20th century like George Orwell, J.D. Salinger, and John Steinbeck, whose novels are widely prominent in American culture, used many adjectives to convey the emotions and opinions of the characters in their stories. During the 1950s however, Minimalism became a…

Ernest Hemingway once said ”there is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.” In the story “Indian Camp” Nick, his father and his uncle George travel to an Indian Camp where there is a woman who is having trouble in labor. When approached, the woman is screaming on top of her lungs. Nick asks why, and his father has to explain to him that she is in labor. Nick has an uneasy feeling and keeps looking away. Nick’s father started…

the people and many writers used their stories to get that point across, for example F Scott Fitzgerald, “You don 't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say”. Among many of the famous Modernist writers, Ernest Hemingway played a significant part in the influential movement. In Indian Camp, Hemingway uses his modernist techniques to construct a simple work of literature…

actually decent characterization, perhaps it is worthwhile. But, nonetheless; the most boring, unexciting book I have ever feasted (or perhaps forcefully overindulged) my eyes upon. I guess it just wasn’t quite my cup of sea. This novella was written by Ernest Hemingway, who is widely known to have this obsession with death, at least in his novels. He had a distaste for war believing it was tragic and horrible. He killed himself July 2nd, 1961 by shotgun. Now, I make these ideas Hemingway had…

novels. One reason why it is incorporated is because it is a way for the author to represent their ideas to their readers. Or, it also can signify a metaphor in a person’s life of different objects and people. In the novel The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, there are many people and objects used as symbols. The use of those figures are a way Hemingway uses to communicate with his readers and give another meaning to his narrative. Also, he creates a link with his readers because the…

wealth. Many did not see the negatives of their actions, something many writers tried to embody in their works. Many modernist prose works of the 1920s have the common theme of people believing that money can fix problems occurring in their lives. In Ernest Hemmingway’s “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”, the main character, Harry, chose to focus on accumulating more wealth in his life which caused him to lose out on his dreams. Harry and his wife Helen have come to Africa and the base of…