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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...

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...

this relationship, which is entails infidelity and, therefore, mistrust and lies. Similarly, miscommunication and infidelity pla...

Like White Elephants" we have a man and a woman, although the characters are an American Man and a Girl, wherein the man is seemi...

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...

- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...

those standards of conduct which generations before World War I appeared to accept as adequate and perfectly satisfactory" (Meyers...

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...

is often overlooked as a Hemingway story because it addresses a very different sort of theme. But, it is a timeless theme and it i...

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...

desperation or dismay of the narrator whereas Hemingways story leaves us to infer the desperation, but the ending is very similar....

to salvage their relationship. When a scratch on his leg goes untreated with iodine, it becomes gangrenous, and as he lay dying, ...

wives, women always seemed to entice Hemingway and then he would somehow lose interest in them and move on. In better understandin...

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...

a sense of belief and stability. However, one is never really sure if the priest is really that devoted due to the general nature ...

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 ...

conventions of gender as she, or Jake, thinks she is" (The Sun Also Rises (1926) Lecture Notes (Last Day of Discussion)). This fal...

Hemingways protagonists often suffer war wounds similar to his; "excoriate the mother" as he did; or "reflect contemptuously on th...

letters and "The letters cover everything from the emptiness Hemingway felt upon completing a novel to their shared loneliness" (P...

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...

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 ...

to give up, even though he demonstrates clear weaknesses. Santiagos pride pushes him so far that he risks his life, stupid...

It was Fitzgerald who is credited with coining the phrase Jazz Age to describe the 1920s. During this time, the spectre of war an...

is also presented in a manner that makes the reader see what a sad and lonely life she has likely led. This is generally inferred ...

conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...

three oclock. What kind of hour is that to go to bed?" (Hemingway). His colleague says "He stays up because he likes it" (Hemingwa...