Whilst on the surface appearing very simplistic and straightforward, multiple themes are intertwined in the framework of the narrative. ... Jim happens to be in Brisbane when the first news of the war reaches Australia. " It was already several days old, over there, in countries to which they were not linked, and now it had come here." ... Breaking glass a white shirted man with his hands over his face and blood between them" staggers onto the pavement. ... At "le Havre," Jim and Wizzer Green narrowly avoid a "sudden, unexpected confrontation," after Jim allegedly trips the man. ... Significa...

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Hemingway was a rugged man in the true sense, and his writings show this. ... War was one of Hemingway's most common themes. ... Hemingway was known as an "expert in the areas of war, bullfighting, deep-sea fishing, boxing, big-game hunting, and reckless, extravagant living--experiences that he often recounted in his fiction" (Shaffer 1). ... She instead left him for an older man very abruptly. ...

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