Ernest Hemingway Essay

Hemingway’s attitude was a prominent part of him which determined many people’s perceptions of him. One bizarre thing about Hemingway was that he didn’t want a biography written during his lifetime and hoped that no one would write one until a century after his death. Three years before he died, he wrote in his will that none of his many letters were allowed to ever be published. But in the years since his death, Hemingway has had more written about him than any other American writer in the twentieth century. Hemingway was the kind of guy to tell something like it was. His sentences usually were not too complicated and he encompassed many stories by means of repetition (Adams). Hemingway also had a malevolent side to him. If he thought a women were not likeminded to him, he would threaten to take his own life (Adams). “He once boasted of shooting a dog in such a way as to ensure it would take days to bleed to death” (Adams). After going through this phase of having a horrid sense of humor, he started to tell everyone what to do. “Hemingway had arrived; he saw himself as one of the patriarchs of American literature, young as he was. He began to be everyone’s papa, but not often a benevolent one. He

Hemingway knew the process of getting back to his normal state of health would be a difficult task, but he had a hopeful light on it. The idea that he is not the only one who has dealt with terrible battle wounds, helped him to push through the pain, because if other people could do it, then he of course, could to.

Ernest Hemmingway is a masculine writer of immense emotion. He writes off of his life experiences and his feelings towards different subjects. Ernest Hemingway’s themes are virile on the surface, but when analyzed, one will find them to be romantic and sentimental.

Following the recommendation of Dr. John, I visited with Ernest Hemingway, who expressed a concern about his loss of sleep and loss of appetite. He feels guilty for actions that were committed during the war and that he couldn’t save everyone while he was there. He also described himself as a happy man and a family man expect for the times that he is writing and just wants to be left alone. Upon speaking him more in depth he began to close off and began to pace, not wanting to answer any questions, and wanted to just get medication and get home to where he was alone. When asking Hemingway what was the reason he wanted to return home and be alone? He began to become explosive and yell at me. Hemingway shut down and paced even more when I began to ask his wife, Martha, about his moods. Upon bringing in his wife and asking her questions, Hemingway began to become angry telling

He uses symbols effectively, which helps him to explore the theme of disillusionment and death. Death in his stories has many names; for example 'nada' or 'nothingness' – it may be assumed that it is always present. “Hemingway and the Lost Generation thereby explored more than just death, but the possibility of escape from the corruption of the old dreams – of being able to “resume again unknowing” – without returning to the past” (Currell 2009: 39). His short stories contains an excellent portraiture of society struggling with their personal waste lands. Even though they are not literally about the Great War, they display the inner significance of the Roaring Twenties; they show society's mentality and confusion. “Themes of Hemingway’s works have their roots in journalism and in topic or events that he believed were representative of the post-war world his grown-up characters and his readers alike had to confront” (Stewart 2001: 31). Further-more, in Hemingway’s fiction all the values seem to be no longer valid; a reader encounters disappearance of religion, which failed to provide emotional support for traumatised socie-ty. It also does not present valid answers. Finally, in Hemingway’s short stories appears a very important theme of anomie – the state where there are no law or norms. It can be also defined as an individual’s alienation (Idema 1990:

Hemingway's "Indian Camp" concerns Nick Adams' journey into the unknown to ultimately experience and witness the full cycle of birth and death. Although Nick's experience is a major theme in the story, cultural inequality also is an issue that adds to the the story's narrative range. Throughout this short story, there are many examples of racial domination between Nick's family and the Indians. Dr. Adams' and Uncle George's racist behavior toward the Native Americans are based on the history of competition between Caucasians and America's indigenous peoples.

"Indian Camp" in In Our Time, depicts Nick Adams a small boy, exposed to death for the first time. This story does not describe desperation nor does it include alcohol; rather, it demonstrates the promise held in the possibilities of life in Nick's final thoughts: "In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die" (Hemingway 95). Despite the events he witnesses in the camp, Nick's future seems boundless, as well as endless. Potential has no limits, and the pressures of fulfilling potential are, as yet, unknown to him. This first story in Hemingway's first published collection serves as a fitting point of departure for the descriptions of desperation that follow; Nick is free from the weight of potential, and judging by his enjoyment of the idyllic setting that surrounds him, it seems that he looks forward to the promise of life.

He was finally able to participate in World War I as a voluntary ambulance driver for the Red Cross, after repeatedly being rejected because of his damaged eye, caused by his boxing. On July 8, 1918 the nineteen year old was severely injured on the Austro-Italian front and hospitalized in Milan and had an affair with a Red Cross nurse named Agnes Von Kurowsky, who turned down his proposal to marriage. War punctuated Ernest Hemingway’s life and career (Ernest Hemingway 1024). The relationship is said to have formed the basis for one of

Ernest Hemingway started his career as a writer in a newspaper office in Kansas City at the age of seventeen. Here he learned to get to the heart of a story with direct, simple sentences. After the United States entered the First World War, he joined a volunteer ambulance unit in the Italian army. Here he was wounded near the Italian/Austrian front. Hospitalized, he fell in love with his nurse, who later called off their relationship. After his return to the United States, he became a reporter for Canadian and American newspapers and was soon sent back to Europe to cover such events as the Greek Revolution. During the twenties, Hemingway became a member of the group of expatriate Americans in Paris, which he described in his first important work ‘The Sun Also Rises’ (1926).

The style of an authors writing can often be the key to understanding the emotions and thoughts that they want to convey onto the reader. Sometimes the comparison of various authors can show how different styles of writing bring different events and characters into play. This is particularly true with the authors William Faulkner and Earnest Hemingway. Their writing styles are exponentially different, but both authors use their differing styles to their advantage. In both The Sun Also Rises by Earnest Hemingway and As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, characters face issues such as feeling alienated and lost. The characters in As I Lay Dying deal with their issues through more complex thoughts and irrational actions, which is illustrated through complex language showing a controlled chaos. Hemingway’s simplistic language shows that Jake, the main character, has issues that are deeper rooted than they seem. The use of diction and style in these stories helped to make them pieces of classic American literature.

In ?Indian Camp? the roles we see in ?Hills Like White Elephants? are reversed. The primary characters are now those in the service sector with the Indians filling the rest of Hemingway's equation as the foreigners. As the father figure tries to gently bring his son up properly his moral lessons and further introduction to reality are solely facilitated through their traumatic experience in the service industry dealing with a female who is a foreigner just like as in ?Hills Like White Elephants?. Except here it isn't explicitly stated that the Indians speak a native language, English, another language or a combination as the waitress in the previous story. It's through the apathetic treatment of his patient that Nicks father first develops a new depth to his character. In telling statement to the son when he begs the father to do something about the Indian womans

From fishing trip to the birth of a baby to an unexplained suicide, Nick has had a very interesting day. Indian Camp is centered around the main character Nick who is a young boy and his father is a doctor. From the short story “Indian Camp”, by Ernest Hemingway, Nick experiences his first time seeing several things happening as graphic as child birth with C-section and suicide, things he had never seen before and had no idea that he was about to experience that in his life. From the reading, the young Indian seems reluctant to look at the episode head on however he was a good help to his dad. I also observed that Nick is not a tough person, that he is sensitive, passionate and caring. “Oh, daddy can’t you give her something to make her stop screaming?” I think that Nick might have been too young to be experiencing such a grownup episode as childbirth and under the circumstance as a C-section and mortality. I also think that his father may have pushed this experience on him a little too soon. As it turns out Nick still too young to really process the idea of mortality and Nick’s father had to explain to him a whole lot more than he expected to do. “He was looking away so as not to see what his father was doing.” “Nick did not watch. His curiosity had been gone for a long time.”

The Indian camp is considered as one of Hemingway's best short stories. For the most part, it focuses on the relationship between father and son, and life experiences like: childbirth, loss of innocence and suicide. Nick Adams, the son of the doctor, accompanies his father to the Indian camp where a woman that was pregnant has complications giving birth. Dr. Adams ends up performing a caesarian section, ultimately saving her and the baby’s life, but then the woman's husband commits suicide. This is Nick’s first traumatic incident, and the first sight of personal suffering. This is shown with his various questions he asked his father, like "do ladies always have such a hard time having babies?" (3) and "do many men kill themselves, Daddy?" (3), the repercussions of life seem as clear as day to Nick for the first time in his life.

“Hemingway’s greatness is in his short stories, which rival any other master of the form”(Bloom 1). The Old Man and the Sea is the most popular of his later works (1). The themes represented in this book are religion (Gurko 13-14), heroism (Brenner 31-32), and character symbolism (28). These themes combine to create a book that won Hemingway a Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and contributed to his Nobel Prize for literature in 1954 (3).

Ernest Hemingway the winner of the Nobel Peace prize lived a troubled life over his Sixty-two years of life and experienced many struggles. He went through a few marriages, different faiths and in the end, he lost his battle with depression. However, though all of this he made an impact on the world with the style and theme of American literature he wrote and is a significant influence to many authors and readers alike. During his life, there were many things that were an influence and help shape his writing into what it is today. Hemingway heavily focused on the theme of war during his career and was a topic of several of his novels one of those novels being “For whom the bell tolls” (Hemingway) The recognizable effects of Hemingway’s influence on literature is still witnessed around the world in the many tributes to him to this day.