Mary Welsh Hemingway

Everybody has a different opinion on the idea of manhood, but Hemingways was a very unique opinion and that opinion is portrayed through one of his most famous characters. Santiago fights through the hardships of the sea while on his journey. Next, Santiago displays intelligence throughout his struggles. Finally, Santiago displays his strength and pain throughout his way back to the shore. Ultimately, Santiago displays manhood through his battles of hardships, his intelligence, and his strength…

extremely tense conversation between a American man and his girlfriend, a young women named Jig. The story opens in a untraditional manner with no background, no indication of the characters emotions, and substantially seems to have no purpose. Hemingway himself gives the impression of utter detachment from the characters. He places the reader in a position as if they are listening into another conversation. The reader is left to perceive the topic at hand by picking up key points to evaluate…

main character, Harold Krebs, Ernest Hemingway also struggles after returning home from the war. First and foremost, in “Soldier’s Home” Ernest Hemingway refers to Harold as Krebs instead, by doing this, Ernest Hemingway is creating distance and a disconnection between Krebs and everyone in his life. In the military, the soldiers go by their last name,…

In Hills Like White Elephants Ernest Hemingway describes a couple’s decision on whether or not they should have an abortion. The man wants the abortion while the woman is being pressured and going back and forth on whether or not she wants the abortion. Ernest Hemingway uses symbolism, introduces modernism, and uses the setting as a means to compare the life or death decision and the topic of abortion as a whole. Hemingway starts off by describing the setting. The couple is sitting at the bar…

Earnest Hemingway; the interesting man with many different roles. He was born in 1899 in Illinois and started his career of writing at the young age of seventeen while working at a newspaper office located in Kansas City. Hemingway wrote many different novels, including his most famous works: “The Old Man and the Sea”, “To Have and Have Not”, and “The Sun Also Rises”. Earnest Hemingway was an important part to American Literature because of his unique writing style about very unique ideas. An…

Ernest Hemingway’s writing was often influenced by his own life. During his life Hemingway struggled with his masculinity. In his Nick Adams stories the theme of masculinity is explored. Nick, like Hemingway, struggles with the constant need to be masculine. In these stories, Nick avoids the topics of his future and the war because of his need to be masculine. These topics inspire fear and the feeling of inferiority in Nick and masculinity includes neither fear nor inferiority. This is…

detail of the abortion. Making the theme of this story: Clear communication is significant to make life decisions without creating doubt. Hemingway expands on this theme by using symbolism, Point of view and setting in the story. The symbols clouds and the beaded curtain the author is using emphasizes the women's doubt and insecurities. One example that Hemingway points out is "The girl stood up and walked to the end of the station. Across, on the other side, were fields of grain and trees…

Though the subject, setting, point of view, dialog, and overall brevity of Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” all combine to create a desperately fantastic story, the symbolism present in only the title contributes and reveals more to the reader than any other singular aspect of the work as the story progresses. The symbolism that is ever-present is vital to enhancing the seemingly shallow story, as well as truly understanding the circumstances and characters of the brief work.…

“Hills Like White Elephants” The short story “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway was written in 1927. Ernest Hemingway was born in 1898 in Oak Park, Illinois. He worked as a reporter on the Kansas City Star; this was the start of his career. During this time, eighteen-year-old Hemingway was wounded while volunteering as an ambulance driver in World War I. Hemingway had many successes in his career. After moving to Key West, Florida, then to Cuba, he wrote one of his most…

short story Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway, characters play an important and necessary role. With little plot or background information to follow, readers must rely on the descriptions of the main characters and their surroundings to understand the tone of the writing. This story involves only two main characters: “The girl” and “The American”, and much like the couples mentioned previously, these two do not work…