Ernest Hemingway's Short Story 'Up in Michigan': A Review

northern michigan had a huge impact on Hemingway writing was very major. All his settings in most his stories seem to reflect on the areas where he was raised. Or just where he had been with friends or explored himself.

Ernest Miller Hemingway is known for his unique style and theories of writing, especially the iceberg theory. In the Death of the Afternoon, Hemingway says that “The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.” (92) Simple words, vivid images, rich emotions and deep thoughts are the four basic elements of the iceberg theory. Talk about how these stories illustrate four elements of theory. In both short stories, Hemingway describes scenery and characters with simple words directly to give readers a vivid image. Under this sketch, readers can know characters’ emotion and get the theme through their imagination and analysis.

In Ernest Hemingway’s short story “ The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber,,” Hemingway uses the author’s craft of perspective along with dialogue and internal dialogue to create a multi-part claim that develops an overall negative characterization of the story’s characters. Hemingway develops the characterization of Margaret, one of the main protagonists, by using multiple perspectives to assure on her character traits of cruel, manipulative, and fearful.

In the summer of 1917 while the sun beat down in Kansas City, Kansas, Ernest Hemingway took his first official job a writer at the Kansas City Star (Antonacci). Hemingway describes the job explaining “ And the Kansas City Star happened to be, in those years, the beau ideal of every newspaperman in American” (Antonacci). There the writing had to be direct and straight to the point. The paper didn’t have time for frilly literary techniques that required facts and ideas to be wrapped up in adjectives and imagery. This task caused

Ernest Hemingway, a literary icon of the early twentieth century, challenged the typical lengthy and detailed prose of authors before him by pioneering a stylistic revolution centered around heavy dialogue and minimalistic details. More specifically, “Hemingway used a journalistic style and unadorned prose to capture the everyday lives of men and women caught up in history’s most momentous events,” without wasting pages establishing the setting or background within a work like most authors of the nineteenth century (The Letters… 442). Often, the mood, setting, and emotion within Hemingway’s stories are established through symbolism and constant dialogue. Hemingway expertly implements his unconventional and unique authorial style to convey the disparity in gender communication and perspectives and its effects on relationships in his 1927 short story, Hills Like White Elephants.

In hemingway's short story, “Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber”, Hemingway uses the writer's craft of perspective to develop the characterization of the three main protagonist. Wilson, Margaret, and Macomber’s characterization is developed through multiple perspectives which creates a negative tone throughout the story.

Despite this, Liz’s role as a naïve young woman in the story does not fit into the profiles of good and bad women that emerge throughout Hemingway’s works (Smith, 1984, 130). ‘Good women’ display true, selfless love and have functions that extend beyond serving men as “‘they respond to their souls and … free them from the guilt of male sexuality’”, while ‘bad women’ “‘use their sexual power to tempt men and to disturb the often fragile stability of the male world’” ultimately betraying them (Smith, 1984, 130). As Up in Michigan is one of Hemingway’s earlier works, neither of these profiles seem to fit Liz fully. Liz cannot be

Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises has his male characters struggling with what it means to be a man in the post-war world. With this struggle one the major themes in the novel emits, masculine identity. Many of these “Lost Generation” men returned from that war in dissatisfaction with their life, the main characters of Hemingway’s novel are found among them. His main characters find themselves drifting, roaming around France and Spain, at a loss for something meaningful in their lives. The characters relate to each other in completely shallow ways, often ambiguously saying one thing, while meaning another. The Sun Also Rises first person narration offers few clues to the real meaning of his characters’ interactions with each other. The

     Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois, to Dr. Clarence Hemingway and Grace Hall Hemingway. Oak Park was a mainly Protestant, upper middle-class suburb of Chicago that Hemingway would later refer to as a “town of wide lawns and narrow

Many authors, critics, and everyday social readers define Ernest Hemingway as the prime example of 20th century American literature. Hemingway’s works transcend time itself, so that even readers today analyze and criticize his works. His works, of course, have drawn praises and animosity from all corners of the globe. Critics often applause Hemingway on his short simple prose, for which many people recognize him for. His writing builds upon the masterful usage of “short, simple words and short, simple sentences” (Wagner, 3) to create clear and easy to

In the story “A Clean, Well- Lighted Place” by Earnest Hemingway begins with the main character and his co-worker in a café. The two are analyzing, and discussing a deaf, drunk Oldman, who is their last customer of the day. As the deaf old man insists on having more whiskey, the main character informs the young waiter as to why and how the old man tried to commit suicide. They began to converse about the Oldman’s depressed life. The younger waiter is in a rush to go home to his wife, while the older waiter is patient and he stands up for the Oldman, being able to relate to him. Hemingway’s sentence structure and writing style represents the comparison and contrast between setting, people, and objects, along with emphasizing how it is to have and be nothing.

In reading the short story, “Up in Michigan”, by Earnest Hemingway, Hemingway appears to take a feministic approach in writing this story. In this story, men are seen as the dominant or domineering partner in the relationship and women are more seen, not heard and are often found in the kitchen cooking and doing house choirs as their womanly/ femininely duties called for in this era. In this story, Liz is a young lady who was physically and mentally infatuated with a blacksmith by the name of Jim Gilmore. Even though Liz was smitten by Jim, Jim in return appeared to barely notice Liz. Towards the end of the story Liz puts herself in some rather compromising positions, which lands her in more than a noticeable position

On July 21, 1899 Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in Cicero (Oak Park), Illinois. Clarence and Grace Hemingway, Ernest’s parents, raised him and his five siblings in the suburbs and spent time at their cottage in northern Michigan. This is where Ernest learned his love of the outdoors. His father taught him to row a boat, start a fire, clean and cook a fish, make a wild-onion sandwich and handle a gun (Reef, 2009). In high school Hemingway began to write for his school newspaper Trapeze and Tabula.

Ernest Hemingway developed his own style of writing and follows it in “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”. Hemingway’s elegance in writing is such that he indirectly gives all of the information to the reader without making any judgment; thus allowing one to create an opinion about every minute detail of the story. Hemingway illustrates his foundations of writing in “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” by providing small clues that provide an indirect view of the larger meaning.

Ernest Hemingway uses intense short stories to leave a feeling of awe and wonder in the reader of In Our Time. One begins to become emotionally involved and attached to Hemingway's many stories, just as