Life is the lion to Francis Macomber, the "worst one can do is kill you" and in a way it did (Hemmingway 1587). ... He, ultimately, was desperate to be a man and desperate to have "no bloody fear" in leaving Margaret (Hemmingway 1587). ... She is the type of person that in order to make herself feel worthy has to taunt, tease and slander someone; she is "simply enameled in American female cruelty" (Hemmingway 1569). ... For "Margot was too beautiful for Macomber to divorce her and Macomber had too much money for Margot ever to leave him" (Hemmingway 1579). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Hemmingway-The Sun Also Rises In the novel The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway describes a couple who share a very strange and distant kind of love for each other. This story takes place immediately after World War I, a time of great hardship. This hardship results in a digression of ...

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• Grade Level: High School

James Carson, from "The Story of One White Woman,"" and Jake Barnes, from The Sun Also Rises, fail to embody the traditional characteristics of masculinity. While James lacks honor and does not represent a protector, or a provider, Jake remains physically emasculated. Despite the seemingly impossible task of living up to traditional standards of masculinity "ideals such as honor, duty, and heterosexuality' "Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, and Sui Sin Far's "The Story of One White Woman who Married a Chinese,"" suggest that failed masculinity often results ...

• Word Count: 2224
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate