Part of the reason for this---and I feel that it was done intentionally by Hemingway ---is the manner in which his adversities were played out. ... This goes to show how big of an influence a father had on both Nick's as well as Ernest Hemingway's life. One may wonder the reason that Hemingway included such a harsh and unusual incident in one of his stories" beginnings---by this, I mean the suicide of the Indian. The reason for this is quite lucid; it is to prepare the reader for what is to follow in the world of Nick Adams, the world as Hemingway saw it. ... Another story where...

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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 from being corrupted by society. ...

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