YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest Gaines
Essays 451 - 480
to salvage their relationship. When a scratch on his leg goes untreated with iodine, it becomes gangrenous, and as he lay dying, ...
She has been given the opportunity, or so she thinks, to finally live a life that is solely hers. There is a powerful sense of fre...
- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...
her that he likes arguing for it makes the time go faster, but then he berates her for who she is and how she is attempting to mak...
this relationship, which is entails infidelity and, therefore, mistrust and lies. Similarly, miscommunication and infidelity pla...
desperation or dismay of the narrator whereas Hemingways story leaves us to infer the desperation, but the ending is very similar....
different stations in life, these men have essentially the same backgrounds. The thesis can be presented that:...
wives, women always seemed to entice Hemingway and then he would somehow lose interest in them and move on. In better understandin...
done in their lives as they see no hope in the future. Their American Dream is one that came smashing down with the pessimistic re...
closer to home, meaning that the consequences of the war are more far-reaching than they are to Nick, his counterpart. "In Another...
strolled down town, read and went to bed. He was still a hero to his two young sisters" (Hemingway 112). He was a hero because he ...
a sense of belief and stability. However, one is never really sure if the priest is really that devoted due to the general nature ...
letters and "The letters cover everything from the emptiness Hemingway felt upon completing a novel to their shared loneliness" (P...
choked with it, so that they die and fall early. This of course is an extended metaphor for the men themselves, who will also die ...
than half an hour from the bridge, if that is possible.... How are you called? I have forgotten. It was a bad sign to him that he ...
alcoholism. That essential plot is one filled with a powerful sense of seeking ones identity and a sense of loneliness. In...
conventions of gender as she, or Jake, thinks she is" (The Sun Also Rises (1926) Lecture Notes (Last Day of Discussion)). This fal...
conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...
is not to abolish the death penalty but to "abolish the discrimination (which, he adds, favor murderers of blacks and therefore fa...
and resume business as usual. This was the America that greeted an injured young soldier named Ernest Hemingway. The place he lo...
three oclock. What kind of hour is that to go to bed?" (Hemingway). His colleague says "He stays up because he likes it" (Hemingwa...
It was Fitzgerald who is credited with coining the phrase Jazz Age to describe the 1920s. During this time, the spectre of war an...
really did what he wanted to do. As one critic notes, he is "a disillusioned writer" (Arthur). But, in reality he is far more than...
of raucous, unchecked hullabaloo, drinking binges that last from morning to night..." (Scalero 489). Hemingways heroes spend their...
pictured offering ironic commentaries on sculpture and art, with his conversation peppered with "allusions to Samuel Johnson, Sain...
Frederic and Hemingway both drove ambulances, and were both wounded, and both fell in love with their nurses. But, to take a trivi...
great deal around the fiesta, or the action of partying and escaping reality. But, with each step or each sense of hope the charac...
people. In the United States there is no such thing as a real bullfight, or the bull runs that take place in Spain. It seems, when...
did not hold much power within society, inasmuch as there was an unyielding sense of control that loomed over the aspects of freed...
many people and industries alike; however, Althen et al (2002) note how it is by way of such an objective that one becomes labeled...