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. ... In the beginning of the story, we learn that Francis has tried to shoot a lion but failed, running from the wounded animal in fear. ... The story's conflict is not only between Margot and Francis, or between Francis and Wilson; it is between Francis Macomber and himself. ...

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It is full of literary devices which are brilliantly used throughout the story. ... When we read this short story as it is without analyzing it, we see the conversation as an odd one between a man and a girl regarding an operation that is never actually described and that she is unsure about having. ... Although Ernest Hemingway uses unclear and ambiguous language throughout this short story, it becomes visible what its true meaning is by analyzing the symbols such as the title or the power struggle between those two lovers. ... The white elephant in Hemingway's story is the unborn fetu...

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An Analysis of Ernest Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" "Hills Like White Elephants", by Ernest Hemingway, is a short story published in 1927, which is set at a train station in Spain. ... Most of the story is predominately dialogue between the two characters. ... Although this short story crosses timelines to become relevant to both the early twentieth century and today, Hemingway uses setting and symbolism throughout the story to show that making a decision on whether to have an abortion or not is indeed a difficult decision to make. ... The final use of symbolism is cont...

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Scott Fitzgerald was the leading writer of America's Jazz Age...and one of its glittering heroes"(ENC 190) in writing novels and short stories. ... Scott Fitzgerald") but no matter how many novels and short stories he wrote, Fitzgerald was never satisfied. ... In one of Fitzgerald's short stories, "A Diamond as Big as Ritz" it shows how he longed for large amounts of money. ... In his short story, "Crazy Sunday" Fitzgerald wrote about a man, Joel. ... Joel drinks many times during the story. ...

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There were heroes in all of his stories including The Snows of Kilimanjaro. ... Finally an example of the Hemingway hero can be seen in the short story The Snows of Kilimanjaro. ... However this hero was once again tested in the story when he acquired gangrene. ... By the end of the story it would take over and kill him. ... A prime example of this hero was found in his short story The Snows of Kilimanjaro. ...

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Also, the director tends to take numerous liberties in changing the original story into his own. ... The director of the movie uses his own ideas by making the short meeting between the bodyguard and Nick appear humorous and silly. ... He appears in a short scene at Gatsby's party; other than that, he is nowhere to be seen in the library or at the funeral. ... By alternating the original, the movie becomes a story with a different voice and different perspective. The characters and plot are the same, but the god who spawned the story is of a different originality. ...

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Scott Fitzgerald was a novelist and short story writer who wrote mainly of the jazz age. ... At a young age Fitzgerald spoke of a desire to write and began actively writing detective stories for his high school paper. ... Not satisfied with that, Fitzgerald wrote short stories for the Saturday Evening Post, wrote plays, and traveled extensively. ...

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Following this, Fitzgerald assumed his career writing short stories for magazines. ... In its tryout in November of 1923 it failed and Fitzgerald was back to writing short stories to get out of debt. ... He put his novel writing on hold and wrote short stories to pay for the psychiatric help for Zelda. ... When his contract was up, he made his money writing free-lance short stories and scripts. ...

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He had made himself such a wealthy and famous man through his talent in writing novels and short stories. ... Within the short story Winter Dreams, by Fitzgerald, there were many of the same themes as that in The Great Gatsby such as infidelity as well as similarities between the characters. ... Though the two stories seem to be vastly similar, there are some qualities to the stories that differ completely. ... Though there are many differences to the stories there are further similarities to be discovered. ... Both stories express these struggles in very similar manors each with a disti...

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Their conversation turns into a short, familiar argument, but one that isn't clear, even having read it several times. In the introduction preceding the short story, it states that "Hemingway has a concise way of developing a plot through dialogue and once explained how he achieved an intense compression by comparing his method to the principle of the iceberg: There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. ... If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story- (pg. 233). ... The hills/mountains in the story represent the pr...

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Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby, James Thurber's short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, and F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story Winter Dreams establish that infatuation with dreams causes conflict, confusion, and loss of identity. ... The short story transitions between Mitty's fantasies and Mitty's reality. ... As per expected, when Judy falls short of expectations Dexter's fragile identity buckles: For the first time in years the tears were streaming down his face. ...

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The Roaring Twenties was also known as the Jazz Age and the Era of Wonderful Nonsense due to the many fads, or styles or activities that are popular for short amounts of time, that ran through the nation. ... They wore their hair bobbed, and their dresses short. ... Sinclair Lewis based his stories on how dull and narrow-minded small town Americans were. ... His stories were popular with many young people, flappers included. ... Zora Neale Hurston was not a poet but an African American novelist, traveled around the South in her old car collecting stories, songs, and prayers of black south...

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Paul Academy, the Newman School, and had attended Princeton for a short while. ... Zelda's schizophrenia and Fitzgerald's drinking problem led Fitzgerald to rely mostly on his short stories for income. ... There are three main symbols in the story, the green light, the eyes of Dr. ... Nick Carraway is the narrator of this story. ... Tom is obviously the bad guy in this story and can't possibly be liked. ...

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The short story "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," written by Ernest Hemingway, is about two waiters in a Spanish café who are discussing their last customer of the night, an elderly and lonely drunk man. Hemingway uses a writing style that is straightforward and rarely incorporates adjectives, but his story is loaded with symbolism. ... Hemingway does not waste words in this story. ... Light is the opposite of darkness, a major theme in the story. ... It is ironic that light plays such an important symbolic role in such a dark and gloomy story. ...

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The story takes place in a hotel in Italy on a raining day. ... I chose this story because I compare myself with her situation; she wants someone that cares for her. ... Early in the story, Hemingway shows us that she can perceive deeply, and appreciate another person. ... This very short story shows a couple who have drifted apart how can two people stay in love when they want incredibly different things? ... His wife wants something for more complex out of life: She wants to be with other, appreciated and appreciating, plus some special pleasures of life like her own the silver and a cat pur...

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He is young, about 27 or 28, with tan skin, drawn tight over his face, short groomed hair, which looks like it is cut every day, and very handsome. The narrator describes early in the story that Gatsby lives in a gigantic, gothic mansion in the West Egg, on Long Island. ... In the beginning chapters of the story, outside impressions of Gatsby were very vague and general. ... As the story progresses, it is revealed that Gatsby is not the man that people thought of him. ... So at the beginning of the story, Jay Gatsby from San Francisco who put on a face that Daisy wanted to see. ...

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Nick Carraway is Daisy's second cousin and has befriended Gatsby; he is the eyes and ears for us in the story. ... From things that are said throughout the story and from our own judgment we know that it was indeed Gatsby and his own stubbornness that killed him. ... " Gatsby turned out alright in the end; it is what preyed upon Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short winded elations of men." ... Even though this particular story was written in the 1920's, it can still be considered a m...

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In the short story "Hills Like White Elephants" the author Ernest Hemingway sets the setting in about the 1930's of an "American" and a "girl" sitting at a table together in a small train station bar somewhere between Barcelona and Madrid. ... The topic that the two are having this emotional discussion about is never mentioned in the story, but is shown through symbolism and dialogue. ... The landscape has powerful symbolic dimensions in the story. ... The railway station with the two lines of rails going in both directions forever, but leading to nowhere is another symbol that Hemingway...

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"Hills Like White Elephants," by Ernest Hemingway is a short story about an American man and a girl named Jig who are confronted with a difficult issue of whether or not terminate a pregnancy. ... Hemingway's writing style in this story is well crafted. ... Hemingway uses the hills in this story to symbolize many things. ... At the end of the story when the American picks up both his and the Jig's baggage and carries it out to the railroad tracks, the tension of the story is relieved. ... The girl claims to be fine and then the story comes to its ending. ...

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Ernest Hemingway was an adventurous man, he encountered many obstacles in life that turned him into a wise man. When Ernest recluted to the army in 1917 he was rejected because of some visual problem but later anxious for action he joined theRed css to go to war. When he was in war he got hurt and w...

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Dissipate all Francis would grow up to be the writer who would sum up the Jazz Era with novels and short stories from 1920 to 1940. ... Over all Francis Scott Key Fitzgeralds books and shorts stories were able to teach future generations about an era they knew nothing about until the opened one of his books. ...

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Gatsby is known to the reader only by the stories and rumors that circulate the community. ... Like Gatsby, he goes through great pains and holds jobs that he hates, such as writing short stories, in order to satisfy his love's extravagant lifestyle. ... Whether or not Fitzgerald intended for Gatsby to portray his own story, the reader will notice some sort of connection to his own life. ...

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Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby's past is revealed very gradually throughout the story. ... We hear the story from Jordan, during a conversation her and Nick have. ... It is an awkward part of the story for both of them. ... He says, "There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams-not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. ... The rest of the story shows the downfall of all the characters actions. ...

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The film "The Great Gatsby- begins its story with the introduction of Nick Caraway, a native of Minnesota. ... A short time later, Tom begins to grow suspicious of his Daisy and Gatsby's relationship. ... This scene is the most crucial to the plot of the film because it is the climax of the story. ... On the surface "The Great Gatsby- is a story of ill-fated love between a man and a woman. ... The film does an excellent job of portraying the story of the novel upon which it was based. ...

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F. Scott Fitzgerald F. Scott Fitzgerald is said to be one of the three most important authors to write in between the two great wars (Magill 1032). After writing the Great Gatsby he became known as the " chronicler of the Jazz Age" (Eble 95). Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Se...

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