The Hemingway hero of "The Snows of Kilimanjaro- is Harry. Harry is self pitying and views his present diseased state as the culmination of poor choices and false, convenient values. However, through final, confrontation with his own mortality, he achieved self-redemption. In "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber- Francis is the Hemingway hero because he had courage and faced his fears. If Francis would not have went out on the safari the last time and had so much courage his wife would not have shot him. Mrs. Macomber killed him because she could no longer rule him. With Francis gaining so much self-esteem he no longer sat back and let his wife cheat on him, without confronting her. The Italian soldiers in "In Another Country- are the heroes because they were not afraid to die. The three boys went to war and returned back to Milan with medals for their bravery for facing death. Santiago from "The Old Man and the Sea- is a hero because he was courageous and was not afraid of death. Santiago went out to sea, never gave up, and knew he could survive anything that happened. Ole Anderson of "The Killers- does not whimper. He takes the medicine quietly and is not afraid of death. In "A Farewell to Arms- Henry is not afraid to face death. He went to war. Later he deserted the Italian Army, knowing that he faced death. He dove into the river and escaped. He swam to safety and boarded a train to Stresa where he reunited with Catherine. REFLECTIONS OF HEMINGWAY'S LIFE Hemingway did not only create characters but created himself. The meaning to that is that he took his life and intertwined it not only into one of his stories but almost all of his stories. As a writer, Hemingway drew heavily upon his war experiences, as is seen in his earlier works that speak of men and women deprived, by World War I, of faith in the moral values in which they had believed, as well as, of those who lived with hostile disregard for anything but their own emotional needs.
