Ernest Hemingway

            The short story by Ernest Hemingway, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" in about, man, Harry, who is on vacation with his wife, Helen, and unfortunately struck with gangrene. When the disease starts to spread trough his body, Harry begins to reflect on his life. Hemmingway expresses the theme that most humans should have some respect for one another, as well as respect for themselves, because they way people treat each other plays a major in their death; plus, be aware that death can come at any given moment.
             Since Harry completely failed to secure a past love in his life, he attempts to recapture that flame and also try to fill the void by disrespecting some people and stealing another man's women. When Harry is in Paris, he goes to a bar and picks up on women and then decided that he is unsatisfied with this woman and steals a different woman from a British solider. "And that night missing her so much it made him feel hollow sick inside, he wandered up past Maxim's, to pick girl up and took her out to dinner" (13). So Harry is totally sad and depressed with the fact that his one true love is gone and tries to fill that empty space in his life with some random women he comes across of the streets. But when he was on this date with this women he was not satisfied with this women so he feels it is important to steal another mans female. "He gone to the place to dance with her afterward, she danced badly, and left her for an Armenian slut that swung her belly against him so it almost scalded. He took her away from a British gunner" (13). Even through Harry can get any women he chooses, he also craves other men's property. "Harry's thoughts are not merely of personal loss, but are also the and losses he has witnessed in the lives of others, even in the lives of nations. Thus, his vision pf life is a universal one and hence is a significant comment on life not jus a personal petulance" (Meyers pg.