Ernest

Ernest Hemingway was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. He lived a very unique life and he carries that over into his writing. His writing intrigues me in the fact that he has such an abrupt writing style, but it was also simplistic. Many experiences that Hemingway went through in his life was evident in aspects of his writing. Hemingway was a patriarch of American Literature. He was awarded for being a war hero and later he received awards for his writing. Eventually his…

Literary Analyst While serving as an ambulance driver during WWI in Italy, Ernest hemingway injured his knee and was sent to a hospital. There he wrote a story about his stay in that hospital. In another country is what Hemingway thought when noticing the cultural differences because he was an american. He also wrote “Death in the Afternoon” in Italy after retrieving remains of women that were in a blast accident. Disguising himself in one of his own stories as an nameless american soldier.…

Hemingway once said, “I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?” Throughout his life, Hemingway battled with various mental illnesses, such as depression and alcoholism. Suicide has also been a tragic recurring event in his life. He reflects his own personal struggles in his short stories,“A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” and “Indian Camp.” He also discusses PTSD through the character of Krebs in “Soldier’s Home.” In “Indian Camp,” readers see Nick Adams as a…

others are too in some way. Friends and families of soldiers, workers who have lost business due to war, and people forced to leave their homes and everything they know because of war are amongst those victims of war people do not think of right away. Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms is a fictitious novel which tells the story of war victims. The characters of Frederic Henry and Catherine Barkley in the World War I-based novel both are affected by the war. In his successful novel, Hemingway…

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 title of this passage is The End of Something. Hemingway uses this title to describe different situations, both implicit and explicit, in the passage. Firstly, this title can be used to describe the area the passage is taking place in. Hemingway calls this area “Hortons Bay” (31), an abandoned lumbering town. Once there were no logs left to make lumber, he describes that the left-over contents of the town “stood deserted in the acres of sawdust that covered the swampy meadow by the shore of…

In Hemingway’s eyes courage is what determines one's manhood. Without courage, every other trait is irrelevant. Francis Macomber is “very 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.…

Jake and Brett’s Quests for Happiness The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway is a classic Lost Generation novel that is set several years after the conclusion of the Great War. Characters in this novel are part of the Lost Generation, those who appear “disillusioned by the staggering number of WWI casualties” (De Greef, Worksheet). Both having returned from war, Jake, the narrator, and Brett, the main female character, epitomize this sense of disorientation and desire for joy. Throughout The Sun…

Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois on July 21, 1899. He was the first born in his family, his father was a physician and his mother was a Christian scientist. Ernest Hemingway got his first experience with writing while he was attending school writing for the school’s newspaper (Mangum). Hemingway worked for the Kansas City Star as a journalist but realized his passion for fiction (“A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”). In 1918, Hemingway was 18 years old and became a volunteer ambulance…

The themes of alienation and isolation complement and essentially go hand-in-hand with the role nature serves in Ernest Hemingway’s In Our Time, and more specifically in the realm of the short story “Big Two-Hearted River.” In several of the short stories concerning him, Nick Adams constantly retreats to nature to find a quiet place of reflection and self-examination, most commonly expressed in the act of fishing; these moments of isolation are those in which Hemingway pays great attention in…