Many believe that a person's character and integrity lie deep within, dating back to what was seen as a child and how they were brought up. ... As seen in the very first story, Three Shots, the very young character of Nick Adams contemplates death and is clearly frightened of it more than anything else in the world at that time. ... Another story where one may realize that Hemingway attempts to show that the world never quite fulfills its complete expectations is The Last Good Country. ... Consequent to my completion of the Nick Adams Stories, it is quite apparent that Hemingway was a...

• Word Count: 1254
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

While some readers interpreted the collection's final story, "Swimming Lessons," as a forerunner to future fiction about the immigrant experience, their expectations fell short when Mistry's first novel, Such a Long Journey, appeared in 1991. ... Gandhi's declaration of a state of internal emergency, the book turns first toward the Parsi community in an unidentified city by the sea that resembles Bombay, but its plot opens up to embrace other characters and to expand the settings. ... Instead, he has turned their lives into a metaphor that stands for the human experience: the ...

• Word Count: 4675
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

While some readers interpreted the collection's final story, "Swimming Lessons," as a forerunner to future fiction about the immigrant experience, their expectations fell short when Mistry's first novel, Such a Long Journey, appeared in 1991. ... Gandhi's declaration of a state of internal emergency, the book turns first toward the Parsi community in an unidentified city by the sea that resembles Bombay, but its plot opens up to embrace other characters and to expand the settings. ... Instead, he has turned their lives into a metaphor that stands for the human experience: the ...

• Word Count: 4673
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate