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What is the motivation of the main character/narrator, Frederic Henry in A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway? To determine what Henry’s motivation is, we might first want to determine what kind of person he is and what kind of person he becomes throughout the story. After all, this is a story about Fredric Henry falling into love with Cathrine Barkley, and who Henry becomes as a result. Although, what motivates him does seems to change a little, as he learns what things are important to him.…

In Timothy D. O’Brien’s criticism of Ernest Hemmingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants,” he concentrates mainly on how allusion and word play contribute to the central conflict of the short story. The story mainly consists of the dialogue between the American and Jig. The choice of the nickname Jig, along with the repetition of certain words such as “know” and “fine” stood out to me while reading the story. In addition to the word choice, the train never comes at the end of the story, leaving it…

Ernest Hemingway’s “Now I Lay Me” (1927) covers the effects of post traumatic stress disorder on Nick after he is wounded in the war. Nick suffers from some form of panic as his mind creates a severe terror after he is bombed in the night. Unable to sleep because he is afraid of dying, Nick instead chooses a form of self-care which relies heavily on his own memory of scenes from his life before the war, his religion and his favorite pre-war pastime. While it seems that Nick is coping with his…

Scene: A family reunion at a Thanksgiving Dinner held, begrudgingly, by Adrienne Rich and her girlfriend, Charlotte Perkins Gilman at Adrienne Rich’s family home. Set in Maryland. Her brother has brought his one child, Huckleberry Finn. William Faulkner has brought his wife, Gertrude Stein, and their three children, Jason Compson II, Quentin Compson, Benjy compson and Caddy Compson. Act I Scene I William Faulkner: Children, please don’t play in the snow. Caddy, pull down your dress.…

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…

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…

Ernest Hemingway’s “Farewell to arms” shows great change in the main characters life throughout the story and how the war can be hard on the characters and be a big affect on their life events and choices. There are millions of people serving our country fighting for our freedom. The people that do are very brave but sometimes don’t come back themselves. They end up with PTSD and that changes their lives forever it so funny how going to war could change someone physicaly and emotionaly. In…

Name Date Class Hemingway’s “A Soldier’s Home”: A lost identity Harold Krebs is a complex man. Throughout Ernest Hemingway’s short story “A Soldier’s Home” it’s clear that Harold Krebs isn’t quite sure who he is or who he has become after serving two years as a Marine in World War I. Hemingway’s distinct and simple writing style helps to carry the story of this multifaceted man. He is referred to as “Krebs”— a soldier – by the narrator; “Harold” by his mother; and “Hare,” an affectionate…

Within Ernest Hemingway’s semi-autobiographical fiction A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway’s ironic devices and tone maintain a particular consistency throughout the novel. Hemingway’s writing style is very straightforward, constantly leaning away from being ambiguous, though there is still a sense of situational irony, coupled with a straightforward tone constantly found within the story’s plotline. Painstakingly simple and general, Hemingway does little to embellish and cover-up the brutalities of…

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…