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

series of misfortunes, but the hero endures, because it is this constant facing of death that defines life. The code hero makes ...

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

by Gertrude Stein was a term she gave to a generation of men and women whose experiences in World War I undermined their belief in...

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

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...

first publish Three Stories & Ten Poems in 1923 in Paris ("A Chronology" PG). In 1926 , the well known work The Sun Also Rises wou...

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...

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...

of raucous, unchecked hullabaloo, drinking binges that last from morning to night..." (Scalero 489). Hemingways heroes spend their...

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...

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

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 ...

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

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...

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

making a comeback"(Carver 2003). This was the turning point for Carver. Many of his works are shaped by a sense of...

is duly noted is with the different names that people of all ethnic origins - including African-Americans themselves - use to iden...

quietly, knowing something is coming her way, some feeling, some understanding, some epiphany. Then, it comes. It tells her she is...

love that both lives and dies upon ones overzealous sense of passion. "There was a time when I thought I loved my first wife more...

that what they hoped for at collage. However, the betrayal by Duane despite the beauty of Holly. Carver starts to indicted the way...

humanity. The action is the medium by which the man learns, but it is the learning that makes the story fundamentally interesting....

nowhere, even in his hometown of Oak Park, Illinois. So he joined fellow writers like F. Scott Fitzgerald on a seemingly endless ...

In six pages this essay discusses the positive characterization of the blind man in the short story 'Cathedral' by Raymond Carver....

This essay contrasts and compares J.D. Salinger's coming of age novel Catcher in the Rye with Harper Lee's account of a Southern c...