Ernest Rutherford

In the novel “A Farewell to Arms” Frederic Henry is an American lieutenant in the Italian army. He drives an ambulance, taking injured soldiers from the battlefield to a hospital. He is a young, wild, womanizer, who uses alcohol and women to escape from his reality. Henry soon comes to hate his job and what he sees on a daily basis. Frederic takes a trip to Italy where he parties, drinks, and seduces women as daily tasks. Once he returns he tells his friends about his trip and the events that…

Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea. Philadelphia: Chelsea, 1999. Print. Modern Critical Interpretations. Flora, Joseph M. “Biblical Allusion in The Old Man and the Sea.” Studies in Short Fiction 10.2 (Spring 1973): 143-147. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism…

Post World War 2, the United States seemed like the ideal place for Americans. For many Americans, this was a time in which they were able to live an easy life filled with adventure, culture, and gratitude for life. For those in the 20-30 age range, time was a pigment of their imagination; going about in life as if there were no end to it. They were more focused on having a great time and not having the worry of wars repercussion on their mind. Culture is what spoke to them and seemed to be…

Ernest Hemingway’s novel, A Farewell to Arms, paints a love story taking place on the Italian front during World War I. It is in this setting that he makes love a major theme by bringing Lieutenant Henry, an ambulance driver, and Catherine Barkley, an English nurse, together. Henry was a man that was well liked and respected for his rank and all that was important to him was his duty to serve. However, Catherine Barkley would change his perspective on the war. Initially, in the introduction of…

Masculinity in “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” Being a man is a theme that Ernest Hemingway often writes about in his stories. Masculinity plays the biggest role in the short story “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” because Wilson and Francis Macomber have the goal to be a “bigger” man. Margot is Macomber’s wife, and she is impressed by Wilson’s manliness rather than her husband’s. Throughout the story, Margot makes it blatantly obvious as well that she does not respect her…

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along’” (Eleanor Roosevelt). In the book The Old Man and The Sea the word and meaning of “Code Hero” is explained and shown many times, in those times Santiago as a main character became stronger physically and mentally as a person and fisherman. In this case the character Santiago…

friendly, or confident a woman is, looks can only do so much in hiding a rotten heart. Such women are selfish and destructive, manipulate others, and take advantage of every opportunity to further their self-image. The way both Lady Brett Ashley of Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises and Daisy Buchanan of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby approach love and relationships with the men in their lives enables them to gain full power and control. Brett and Daisy use their…

these individual to stand together, but appear far apart. The modernist method of writing allows for individuals to do exactly that, stand together but appear to be far. Writers Ernest Hemingway and T.S. Eliot demonstrated such disassociation in living deliberately in time and place of Nick and J. Alfred Prufrock. Ernest Hemingway’s story Big Two-Hearted River tells the story of a young man who returns to his old fishing hole after the war. Nick, is his name and he returns home faced with some…

The sun also rises on Ernest Hemingway Hemingway may just be the best american author of all time. Many cool things happened during this mans life. Outstanding and wonderful things. Hemingway lived during a time of great fun and freedom. It was a time when peoples minds where free. Many people have read and loved hemingway 's books. Ernest Hemingway is one of the greatest and most memorable american authors, during the moderns Era was when he wrote most of his work such as The Sun Also Rises…

This literary analysis will define the underlying ethnic biases of the “white patriarchal male” that is based on the short stories “Hills Like White Elephants” and ““Indian Camp” by Earnest Hemingway. Hemmingway’s biography provides a foundation for the racism and sexist behavior of privileged white males in the context of James Mellow’s description of Hemingway as a literary figure in the early part of the 20th century. The short story “Hills Like White Elephants” defines the casual and…