The American wants Jig to have an abortion but tells her she does not have to go through with it if she doesn't want to, though believes it would be for the best. ... She feels that regardless of the choice she makes, there will be corresponding consequences, and the long-term relationship she and The American could share will fail in the end, crushing her hopes of finding true love and happiness. ... As time progresses throughout the story and the couple's verbal "tug-of-war," the reader witnesses the irrevocable deterioration of the relationship, giving them uncertaint...

• Word Count: 1134
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It is a truly gripping story, told in a lean, hard, athletic narrative prose that, in a way, puts other great works of literature to shame". ... Hemingway knows how not only to make words be specific but how to arrange a collection of words which shall betray a great deal more than is to be found in the individual parts"." ... On the snippet, Hemingway prefaced the James quote "The war has used up words " by writing "on the debasement of words by war"."... Hemingway is frequently seen as an artist who has created an entirely new style of American fiction, one that adheres to truer ideas of obj...

• Word Count: 5359
• Approx Pages: 21
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate