Ernest Thompson Seton

The restaurant was named after the Minetta Brook which ran southwest from 23rd Street to the Hudson River. Throughout history, the tavern was frequently visited by various well-known people such as Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, Eugene O’Neill, E. E. Cummings, Dylan Thomas, and of course, Joe Gould. It was a hub for writers and poets. Today, the restaurant has been described as as Parisian steakhouse meeting a classic New York City tavern, and has even…

Hills like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway, a renowned piece of literature, attracts the attention of many literary scholars. In this short story, a couple consisting of Jig, and the American, must decide whether or not to have an abortion. When first read, this story appears to have little depth and what the characters discuss is unclear. However after evaluation, it becomes clear that the story has much depth and is no longer about abortion but rather the emotions surrounding the situation…

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…

Although the information on Jig in Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants”(Mays 590-94) is limited, it is inevitable that she is crucial to the story. Encompassing the main idea of the story, the minimal knowledge of the character accents the rather bigger picture of absentee dialogue and stripped details leaving readers questioning the motives of Hemingway and the overall point to the story. Looking deeper into the story though, it becomes much more than just a conversation between two…

Hills like White Elephants Ernest Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants” has two main characters. There is an American man who is trying to convince his girlfriend to have an operation, an abortion. The American calls the girl Jig, Jig knows that no matter what she decides about the baby, this is the end of her relationship with the American man. Although she knows that her relationship with the American will not continue regardless of the decision she makes about the baby, Jig retreats from…

is the old man a success or failure? (brain storm) 2 page persuasive essay defending your position You must use example from the book failure because page 1 he has not caught a fish in 40 days success because he catches a 18 foot monster fish that he struggled for 3 days to catch. (don't know page number) failure because he struggles for 3 days to catch a fish and i understand that it is a 18ft marlin. success he prays to the virgin mary for the death if the fish page 65 failure because he…

In the short story “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway, there are many symbols that may be interpreted as different things. The book has several main symbols throughout it. These symbols include the land, the light, the alcohol, the train station, and the white elephant. Many people have different interpretations of what they think the symbols mean and what each stand for exactly. As the story begins, we are introduced to the setting which is described as brown and dry with no shade…

Herman Melville’s The Confidence Man: His Masquerade has endured the test of time, proving to be a true classic. This satirical masterpiece criticizes American society’s impulse to monetize all opportunities, with a disregard for ethics. Melville represents American society with a miniature community aboard the "Fidèle", a steamboat heading to New Orleans, carrying a variety of passengers. However, instead of analyzing the rhetoric Melville employed when writing the story, the focus will be the…

In his novel A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway tells the story of an American ex-lieutenant Frederick Henry looking back on his life and relationship with Catherine Barkley. The lovers first meet outside a villa-turned-hospital and almost immediately begin playing, as writer Ernest Lockridge wrote, a “game of cat-and-mouse” with one another (Hemingway 18, Lockridge 72). Lockridge argued that because of this game, it appears as if Hemingway wrote Frederick to be an ignorant, naive lover, and…

In Ernest Hemmingway’s works, “The End of Something” and “Indian Camp”, both have a connecting theme which is the termination of something; in this case the ending of a relationship and the ending of a life. In the short story “The End of Something”, Hemmingway tells the story of a young boy Nick breaking up with his girlfriend Marjorie. Nick and Marjorie’s relationship had lasted a long time due to the memory that they both share of a mill that was destroyed 10 years ago, “There’s our old ruin,…