How Does Hemingway's Hope To Make A Change

Ernest Hemingway is one of the greatest American 20th century novelists. Born in a Chicago suburb, he emerged as a writer quite early, starting his career immediately after high school. He served in World War I as an ambulance driver. After the war, wounded, Hemingway returned to the U.S. for a short time before settling in Paris with his first wife, Hadley Richardson. In his memoir A Moveable Feast, he describes his years in Paris as a young writer, his relationship with his wife and their infant son, as well as his circle of friends and acquaintances. However, it all seems but a background setting for his work. Throughout A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway proves to be a dedicated writer.

“If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.” - John F. Kennedy

In Hemingway’s writing, there is more description and scene setting while in Faulkner’s work, the utilization of rhetorical devices creates an intricate story line in a short span of time. Both include variations of imagery and symbolism in their work, for example A Farewell To Arms and Hills Like White Elephants by Hemingway and A Rose for Emily and Barn Burning by Faulkner. While there are analogous core rhetorical strategies at use in the work of Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner, the two authors diverge and use the devices vastly

Hemingway wrote in a basic, direct, simple style. Many people believe this is attributed to the fact that he was a newspaper writer and was taught to display the facts of a story in a crisp, short manner. Hemingway used a method called the iceberg principal, keeping his compositions direct and bare. Hemingway was considered a master of dialogue, ironically he failed at his attempt at being a play write. Conversations between the characters Hemingway writes about are not just about the words they say, but also the conversational limits.

In Hemingway’s writing, he is always searching for truth, although, he often looks at the world in a nihilistic way. When reading through the authors’ short-stories or novels, he often refers to nothingness and the meaninglessness of existence. However, he also uses a practical application to repair his existential nihilistic viewpoints. Hemingway’s work is often seen as a representation of himself, and I believe that he used pragmatism as a distraction from the meaninglessness of the world. With suicide being prevalent in his family, I firmly believe that Hemingway himself strived for meaning in life, but eventually opted out because life is chaotic and there are too many unknown answers in the world. Hemingway tried to establish values and morals through pragmatism, but in reality, values are constantly changing and everything is temporary. By looking through a philosophical lens, I will demonstrate how Hemingway uses absurdism, nihilism, and pragmatism as a way to understand and interpret the world. In order to do so, I will look through Hemingway’s short-stories and novels and analyze passages critically to showcase the theories that are present in his work. In order to undertake this grand idea, I will also incorporate biographical elements to display Hemingway’s family history of suicide and to showcase his personal struggle to find meaning in the world.

To a new reader many of Hemingway’s metaphors

Royals saved the United States when magic tore the union apart. Under the rule of sixteen monarchies, America has risen from its own ashes and returned to its place as a global power.

While in Italy working as an ambulance driver during World War I, Hemingway was hurt during an explosion that injured his leg. While in the hospital, Hemingway met a nurse named Agnes von Kurowsky. Hemingway soon fell in love with Kurowsky. The couple would often argue and fight. Soon after recovering Hemingway left Italy and returned back to American all while thinking that he and Kurowsky would come to be married.

Hemingway's writing technique is an interesting way of writing. His “Iceberg Theory” is influential to writers today. His theory is composed up of 10% conscious mind and 90% of only subconscious mind. He was an authentic writer. His writing is relatable and believable because of the silences he would use and short sentences. Hemingway’s writing was is close to everyday encounters and situations. He is widely known for his writing and stories. He gave a new flavor to writing and touched people's hearts in a personal way. Because of his special writing, his structured way of writing will live out for generations to come.

Although it is not told in a straightforward, step-by-step manner, the story often uses simple, unembellished language, which highlights the truth of what is being said. “In my pocket was the money from Germany so there was no problem. When that was gone some other money would come in.” (77) Here, the short and clear sentences convey Hemingway’s optimistic and accepting attitude without creating any doubt or confusion. Yet the story does not lack detail - in particular, imagery provides the detail and subtle meaning that the story’s precise tone sometimes weakens.

In his memoir A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway emerged as a zealous writer. According to Jonathan Yardley, author of the review “Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast Still Satisfies”, Hemingway’s writing style developed from “self-discipline and self-denial” described in the novel. Although the writer often appears as an unlikeable person, there can be no doubt to “the seriousness of Hemingway's purpose or… dedication” (¶8). He struggled to improve his technique; he “always worked until [he] had something done,” writing every day to sharpen his skills (7). Hemingway was committed solely to writing: Eating, reading, and even having sex with his wife were only something “necessary” to him after he “had written” (12). Moreover, when he was working,

Star. Hemingway signed up as a volunteer ambulance driver for the Red Cross during WWI. He was accepted in December of 1917, left his job at the paper in April of 1918, and sailed for Europe in May. When Hemingway returned home from Italy in January of 1919 he found Oak Park dull compared to the adventures of war. With a letter of introduction from Sherwood Anderson, Hemingway met some of Paris' prominent writers and artists and forged quick friendships with them during his first few years. Counted among those friends were Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Sylvia Beach, James Joyce, Max Eastman, Lincoln Steffens and Wyndahm Lewis, and he was acquainted with the painters Miro and Picasso. Hemingway was inspired to write different works at different times because of the events that occured 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).

Many of the passages of the novel reflect his life. Hemingway writes: “But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” This has been shown through his life, as Hemingway wrote the novella to prove he wasn’t finished as a writer. This is also reflected during his time in World War 1. Hemingway was wounded by Austrian Mortar fire, and yet despite his injuries or “defeat,” Hemingway carried a wounded italian soldier to safety. Hemingway wrote: "When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion

Ernest Hemingway wrote A Farewell to Arms, a celebrated historical fiction, amidst a time of war and personal suffering. Hemingway believed at this time that “life is a tragedy that can only have one end” (Hemingway, VIII). He continues further, calling war a “constant, bullying, murderous, slovenly crime” (Hemingway, IX). Hemingway also suffered at home, in addition to his issues regarding the state of the world. His wife had just endured a difficult pregnancy and delivery, which contributed to the last bitter chapter of his story. Keeping in mind the tortured and surly mental state of Hemingway, it is difficult to swallow the idea that he would write a wholesome, well founded love story that attracts people. To some readers, A Farewell to Arms tells of a whirlwind romance between an ambulance driver and a nurse that is based on an unbreakable foundation of love, trust, magnetism, and compassion. Anxious modernists, like Trevor Dodman who are cited in Joel Armstrong’s nonfiction text, will come up with a remarkably different outlook on this tragedy. With aid from “‘A Powerful Beacon’ Love Illuminating Human Attachment in Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms”, the loveless relationship between Frederic Henry and Catherine Barkley will be seen as rushed, meaningless, and mentally destructive to the parties involved.