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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...

hero may have incredible moral fiber, but have a tendency to love women he can never have. Tragic flaws, if one looks at any story...

write about" (Anonymous Brainstorm Page IV-A, 2002; iv-a.htm). Also as mentioned, his stories were not always, if ever, truly h...

of "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" as something of a metaphor for what is generally referred to as the "war between the...

in his own quest to find his own American Dream, squanders an inheritance on a one-shot deal that goes bad. And in the old adage t...

he presents. There is pain and violence and death in Hemingways world, and he struggles to show his readers this aspect of life....

doesnt let this bother her in the least (Hurston, 1999). Interestingly, despite Janies assertiveness and her obvious independen...

the novelette" (Bruccoli; Hemingway; Baughman 121). This critic was responding to a statement made by Hemingway wherein he claimed...

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

Frederic and Hemingway both drove ambulances, and were both wounded, and both fell in love with their nurses. But, to take a trivi...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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

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

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

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

decide to go out on his own and catch a fish so that he was not unlucky any longer. He is also a very old man. In these respects o...

errors, and so kind to people that I always thought of him as a sort of saint" (Hemingway 88). This is clearly a very high claim t...

women: "During the early 20th century the term new woman came to be used in the popular press. More young women than ever were goi...

way the housekeeper Nelly Dean cares for generations of motherless children of the intertwined Linton and Earnshaw families, compa...

the boy to play at the wealthy Miss Havershams mansion. Her uppity niece Estella immediately dismissed the blue-collar boy as com...

Dickens appears to introduce Charles Darnays mother for the sole purpose of establishing her as the source for Darnays personal in...

One of the reasons for this is that Dickens expertly wove just about every emotion and every tale of human nature into this one gr...

conditions within the factories were terrible. Unfortunately, it can be said that they same disgraces that Dickens saw during his ...

how they were hindered and helped by his educational options. Pip, like Dickens, encounters a great deal of frustration with the e...

illustrating how misery is a product of human actions. This book can be said to have more dark overtones than those of some of h...

One of the main themes in this Dickens novel is that of disillusionment, and we see this theme emerge on many different levels wit...

shining armor since he has redesigned his house to look like a castle. However, he does not bring this kind and generous nature in...