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Literature and Nature

powerful setting. In the title itself we imagine hills and we envision hills that look like white elephants. This could clearly...

J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye

seems only to be related to her nature as a reference point. Mr. Caulfield is never seen in the novel, and there is little inform...

Eight Works of Literary Fiction and the Influence of Social Position

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

Fitzgerald and Hemingway

alcoholism. That essential plot is one filled with a powerful sense of seeking ones identity and a sense of loneliness. In...

Hemingway's Men and Women

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

Loneliness in the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

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

Three Short Stories and the Nature of Love

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

Significance of the Title: “The Sun Also Rises” by Hemingway

great deal around the fiesta, or the action of partying and escaping reality. But, with each step or each sense of hope the charac...

The Homemade Self

individual (Keating, 1999). People are generally selfish. They look at life from the perspective of whether or not something will ...

J.D. Salinger’s “Catcher in the Rye”

because Holden cannot seem to figure out how to grow up, how to become an adult he would admire and respect. He is frightened of g...

Holden, Mental Illness

mean a person who saves children from going over a precipice. As this indicates, he wants to be a "savor/ defender of the innocent...

Life of Ernest Hemingway Reflected in his Art

Uncle Sam finally entered the First World War in 1917, Hemingway tried to enlist, but was constantly rejected because of his poor ...

Analysis of Two Works by Ernest Hemingway

an unnamed American man and his girlfriend, Jig. Theyre sitting at a train station in the valley of the river Ebro; its barren and...

A Film Adaptation/Soldier's Home

adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway short story, directed by Robert Young and produced in 1997. The protagonist of this short film ...

"Big Two-Hearted River, Parts I and II" by Ernest Hemingway

aching muscles, "Nick felt happy," as he has "left everything behind, the need for thinking, the need to write, other needs" (Hemi...

Hemingway, O'Brien, and the Nature of Truth

In a paper of eight pages, the writer looks at the works of Ernest Hemingway and Tim O'Brien. The treatment of "truth" in a fictio...

To Kill a Mockingbird and Franny and Zooey

the struggles of a brother and a sister as they try to uncover the meaning of life, the spiritual nature of life, and many other d...

Themes in Hemingway’s Old Man and the Sea and A Farewell to Arms

so closely related is dangerous for the reader. Its tempting to think that this is nothing more than Hemingway retelling events in...

Hills Like White Elephants and Everyday Use

are giving in to another, and also demonstrating how they are not necessarily self confident or overly concerned about themselves ...

J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and Materialism

with money, as the underlying theme is that which revolves around Gatsby using the pursuit of money, and the acquisition of money,...

Henry James' Daisy Miller and J.D. Salinger's Holden Caulfield as Social Outcasts

In seven pages this paper examines how social outcasts can take different forms in a comparative analysis of Daisy Miller and Catc...

World Dissatisfaction in J.D. Salinger's 'Catcher in the Rye' and Gustave Flaubert's 'Madame Bovary'

In a 5 page paper, the characters' dissatisfaction with the world that has rendered their lives meaningless is explored. There ar...

'A Clean Well Lighted Place' by Ernest Hemingway

This paper consisting of six pages argues that in this story art reflects life as the common denominator linking Hemingway to his ...

Abortion in 'Hills Like White Elephants' by Ernest Hemingway

In five pages this research essay explores the abortion debate within the context of Hemingway's short story and how important saf...

'A Clean, Well Lighted Place' and 'Hills Like White Elephants' by Ernest Hemingway

In five pages this essay considers the 'everything' or 'nothing' connotation of oneness as represented within these short stories ...

Explication of The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

In five pages a critical analysis of the novel by Claude Clayton Smith in which The Sun Also Rises is linked with The Crystal Tren...

Gender Relationships in the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

even Hemingway himself consciously does not, that "blowing things heads off" is not the way to prove a mans masculinity. "What imp...

Paper Life of Ernest Hemingway

In seven pages the ways in which Hemingway's real life mirrored his characters and fiction are examined within the context of vari...

Reflections of Life in the Work of Ernest Hemingway

developed what became known as the definitive Hemingway narrative style -- dispassionate, objective and oftentimes ironic. Life i...

Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway as Reflections of the Author's Life

quotes Gertrude Stein as calling Hemingways set "the lost generation" (Roth, 450). Although only a few of his stories and novels a...