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Ernest Miller Hemingway wrote many novels, short stories and he was an all-American journalist. His stories were mostly known to be fiction and he was a good enough author to win the Nobel Prize in literature in 1954. In his two stories, “Cat in the Rain,” and “Hills like White Elephants,” he uses the theme of marriage between husband and wife and what each person wants and how their wants throw some conflict with what their spouse would like. In both stories, it would seem as if the husband in…

Irrevocable Regrets Hemingway’s Overarching theme of death creates an overwhelming sense of fear and anguish. He takes us to the summit of the tallest mountain in Africa, Mount Kilimanjaro. In the story “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” Harry and his wife Helen, become stranded on a safari in Africa after one of the bearings in their truck burned out. Africa was not a final destination for Harry but Fate has ultimately made this his final resting ground. In this story, Ernest Hemingway…

In life people can relate to certain short stories because most relate to everyday life. I felt “Hills like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway and “Good People” by David Wallace Foster are two short stories with similar themes that are true everyday issues couples face. In the story “Hills like White Elephant” the American girl, Jig, is pregnant. She is described to be in a train station with who is supposed to be her boyfriend. She is faced with a dilemma of whether or not to have an…

“Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway uses the Modernist elements of dialect while focusing on the concrete parts of it's story and setting, along with the strong sense of alienation that comes from the characters. Hemingway uses the Modernist style of only focusing on concrete details and using dialect to keep things to the point, even if it's in a bit of an elusive way. He doesn't mention it directly in the story, but it becomes apparent the “The American and the girl with him”,…

Ernest Hemingway’s short story, Banal Story, juxtaposes the difference between flashy headlines found in stories and articles, and the raw truth of reality. The story is set with an unnamed writer (who remains unnamed through the story’s entirety) sitting at his writing spot, eating oranges and watching the snow. Hemingway starts the story off this way to show the realty of the unnamed writers life. The beginning of this short story parallels the ending by concluding the story with a forum about…

telling this story, he sends a subliminal jab to Jake about his own love life and his faked relationship with the hired prostitute. This shows how a simple scene in Hemingway’s work can show hidden meaning and symbolism (Amidon 331-332; Sheets-Nesbitt 242). Hemingway was known for his themes of pain, self-worth, masochism, death, and animal connections but no theme is more prevalent than what Hemingway is known for, masculinity, otherwise known as the “Hemingway Hero”. The stoic man is the…

In “Hills Like White Elephants”, Ernest Hemingway talks about a couple facing their relationship’s conflicts. He includes displeasing words and phrases to indicate the protagonists’ relationship has come to an end. The story’s central idea is that communication is the key for a long-lasting relationship. In this story, the physical setting, the use of language, and the tone affect Ernest Hemingway’s central idea by providing readers hints that the two main characters will go their separate ways…

In December 1922, Jean Toomer sent a letter to novelist, Waldo Frank describing his intentions with writing Cane. He said, “From three angles, Cane’s design is a circle. Aesthetically from simple forms to complex ones, and back to simple forms...Or, from the North down into the south, and then a return North” (Davis 10). In Cane, Jean Toomer aesthetically creates a “circle” which is a continuity of ideas by interconnecting two forms of writing: lyrical poetry and narrative prose. By using two…

Final Paper Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. He had a strong influence on the 20th-century fiction; his life and image left an influence on later generations. Hemingway is a very talented writer who will be known and remembered forever. His hard work and dedication put into his writing is admired throughout the world. Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899 in Cicero (now in Oak Park), Illinois. In high school he worked on the school newspaper writing primarily…

Life leaves people battered with the obstacles one faces, but such experiences leave us all the wiser for it. In Elizabeth Bishop's “The Fish,” she utilizes the fish to represent how people struggle and get scarred throughout their life, but these barriers give us wisdom and courage to pick ourselves up and face what's ahead. The title of the poem is representative of the crucial nature of its central symbol, the fish while using free verse throughout one large stanza to do so; Bishop has the…