Mike's supreme insult to Cohn is to compare him to a steer. Clearly, this treatment shows how inferior steers are to bulls. Steers lack not only testicles, but also the ability to inspire passion. No one goes to the bullfight to watch the steers. Steers are cut off from the heights of glory to which the bulls ascend. The diction is clearly on the side of the bulls. The bulls are the more attractive and "noble" of the two images. However, I feel that Hemmingway prefers the less dazzling, but more
Ernest Hemmingway, a thriving literary writer of his time, portrayed that the happiness of a man does not come from his surroundings and it does not come often either. He demonstrates this in three ways: he begins by explaining the human nature of Santiago, the main character in the novel, as being a modest, compassionate, and prideful person. Santiago is not portrayed as an exuberantly joyful man, instead he meets life with flexibility and ease. Hemmingway’s second demonstration of this is the villagers
Katherine Mansfield and Ernest Hemmingway are both published writers. One was born in New Zealand and the other in the United States during the late 19th century. This paper will compare and contrast the setting, plot, imagery, climax, and theme between Mansfield’s “Miss Brill” and Hemmingway’s “Cat in the Rain.” The setting in “Miss Brill” takes place in a public garden in France. The story states the band plays in the Jardins Publiques (Public Gardens) in France (15). Miss Brill, the protagonist