Edmund Wilson, in an internet article, "Ernest Hemingway: Bourdon Gauge of Morale," suggests that A Farewell to Arms is a tragedy of love and war . ... Hemingway wrote this book "...long enough after the events for them to present themselves..." ... Wilson points out that Hemingway did not show any solid sense of character during the book. I learned that Hemingway makes it so that Catherine and Henry want to be with eachother forever, but its ironic when the child dies along with Catherine because a cesarian was supposed to be the safest and easiest way to go but it ended up killing Cather...

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Crisis Reveals Character Ernest Hemmingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" displays how crisis reveals character. Hemingway shows the views of a man and a girl before and after a major decision. During the story, Hemingway displays the life of a girl and man to be perfect . ... Hemingway shows that important decisions come at important times, and that your true character will arise upon the situation. ...

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In the short story "The short happy life of Francis Macomber" by Ernest Hemingway the author seems to describe his problems with his wife and woman in general. ... In the story the main charter's wife, Margot Macomber, is described as a "bitchy woman" and that's exactly what Hemingway thinks about woman. ... Hemingway doesn't tell us why she does this, allowing the reader to come to our own conclusions. ... Essentially, it really makes no difference; had Margot hit the buffalo instead of Francis, it would have reinforced his shame, which for Hemingway would be worse than being d...

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(No name, no age, her gender is the single one defender. She is so fine, so delicate, so tender around with her lying cruel contender. No trace of thought, well what can you expect from the weaker gender.) The girl in the story "Hills like white Elephants", by Ernest Hemingway in the beginning...

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Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms portrays a tragic romance between Frederic Henry and Catherine Barkley. ... Hemingway animates love as a replacement for Catherine's and Frederic's scars during the war and further emphasizes from his nihilistic view on life- that no matter what people do or where they go,love itself can provide them a private place, where they could go to separate and evade the horrible realities of society occurring in and around them. ...

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The Old Man and the Sea In the novel The Old Man and the Sea, existentialism is shown throughout the Novel, written by, Ernest Hemingway. ... The tone of these sentences is a little more dramatic in the fact that Hemingway wants the reader to fell for Santiago and the ba luck that has been cast upon him. ... In this quote Hemingway wants the reader to imagine what he thinks is going through Santiago's head during a time like this. In the last sentence in that quote, Hemingway refers to Santiago being a "brother" with the fish, which shows a tremendous amount...

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Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea is the classic tale of an epic struggle between an aged, down-on-his-luck fisherman and a huge marlin. ... Hemingway draws a parallel between Santiago and these ancient heroes; his downfall is the pride that leads him to sail beyond the customary circumfrences established by his companions. ... Santiago's undoing is obviously the pride that leads him to sail far into the gulf waters, but Hemingway does not portray this characteristic as completely defective. ... Hemingway treats the concept of pride ambivalently in The Old Man and the Sea. ...

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However, Hemingway's portrayal of Paris is one of a saddened, feeble, disillusioned postwar city and therefore, the characters deal with a somewhat saddening, feeble, postwar, love. In his novel, Ernest Hemingway describes a couple of characters, Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley, who seem to share a very strange and distant kind of love for each other. ...

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The title of a book is always the most significant part for many reasons. In a book the body is always linked back to the title. There are many things that are behind a title. However, a title can also be mysterious. For instance, in A Farewell to Arms is a title that makes the reader think what the...

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From the indirect presentation of Francis Macomber by Ernest Hemingway, we can gain many insights to his character, through what he does, says, and thinks and also how he interacts with other people. ...

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In the novel The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, the main character Santiago goes through many hardships while trying to catch a great fish, and then while the sharks are trying to devour his precious fish, but in the end he is victorious, as all man is, for he never gave up. ...

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