Literary Criticism On Hemingway 's ' The Three Day Blow ' And ' Indian Camp '

Freud’s theory of personality examined the interplay between the primitive, instinctual urges—the ‘id’; the practical and rational ‘ego’; and the morally attuned ‘superego’; ‘object relations’ refer to the "object" of an instinct”, which is “the agent through which the instinctual aim is achieved”—most often a person and, according to Freud, most often the mother (Ainsworth 1969, p. 1). The psychosexual development theory that Freud launched reduces our behaviour to mechanistic responses to an instinctive need for pleasure fueled by the ‘libido’ and barriers or distortions to the gratification of the libido at various delineated stages of development were responsible for later problems in life (Kail & Zolner 2012, p. 5). Erik Erikson later added depth to the approach by including more humanistic elements to Freud’s stages and including more periods of development (p.

Society is ever changing and evolving, the interactions between family members and those in a person’s community can change from day to day. Shirley Jackson and Ernest Hemingway explore society and the interaction of people within a society to show the true nature of people. The authors both use short yet intense diction which places the reader within the story. The twists within the plot lines of both essays show the reader life is always unexpected and that although one may believe they know the conclusion they are blindsided by the truth. The two writers have very similar approaches throughout the story hiding the true reasoning behind the story until the finale, yet the way the compose their essays and the way in which societies within those essays act, both writers display how

Throughout his years, various women had walked into the famous writer Ernest Hemingway’s life. Yet these same women never remained with Hemingway for long and soon enough walked out on him, with the exception of his last and final wife. Thus the love life of Ernest Hemingway proved to be a complex one. However the time each woman had spent with Hemingway did not simply end with their break-ups; instead the women’s brief relationship with Hemingway served to be a great source of inspiration for the famous writer. As a result, Hemingway's depiction of women in his literary works was influenced and inspired by these various women in his life.

In many of the works read in this quarter, there was a deeper meaning to the story that the author would convey to the reader through various morally based or meaningful points and sections. This is most evident in the works of Robert Frost, Ernest Hemingway, and Tim O’Brien. In all of their works, these writers each leave the reader with an important value and a little more understanding on the complexity of human nature and of life itself. Ranging in levels of subtlety and truth, the message sent is familiar and revealing. One might want to ponder these truths alone, as Ernest Hemingway’s main character does in his story, The Old man and the Sea.

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.

Earnest Hemingway is one of Americas foremost authors. His many works, their style, themes and parallels to his actual life have been the focus of millions of people as his writing style set him apart from all other authors. Many conclusions and parallels can be derived from Earnest Hemingway's works. In the three stories I review, ?Hills Like White Elephants?, ?Indian Camp? and ?A Clean, Well-lighted Place? we will be covering how Hemingway uses foreigners, the service industry and females as the backbones of these stories. These techniques play such a critical role in the following stories that Hemingway would be unable to move the plot or character development forward without them.

Jack Kerouac and Ernest Hemingway represent their inner state and feelings at the time they lived through their novels. Ernest Hemingway corresponds to the “Lost Generation” of 1920’s and Jack Kerouac corresponds to the “Beat Generation” of 1950’s. Both of these generations were after wars. It is not coincidence, wars make people devastated and lost. People tried to overcome problems and pain through literature and music. Writers put all their emotions on the paper, musicians wrote songs, which described the hard time they had. These two generations produced the most talented writers of our days. For us it seems that there was no big deal to write such openly, but if we try to go back to the time of these authors, we will understand how

Hemingway poignantly depicts where language can break down between individuals and how what is unsaid can define and divide individuals. The story explores this theme through the literary conventions

On September 29, 1929, “The New York Times” published a commentary piece on Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, describing his writing style as “so strikingly his own that it may bear his name, and is likely to henceforward” (Love and War in the Pages of Mr. Hemingway). Eighty-six years later, readers can experience this for themselves - in the first paragraph of Chapter XXI of A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway uses vivid imagery, staccato-like syntax, and a detached tone through simple diction to create his own unmistakable style. Hemingway’s use of vivid imagery is an aspect of his style that paints evocative pictures in a reader’s mind. One knows that when fall comes, the temperature drops and the leaves change color.

Ernest Hemingway has this uncanny, yet, clear and distinctive writing style, that has made him a successful author and a means of many criticisms. One critic in particular, David M. Wyatt, says that Hemingway has a way of making the beginning of his stories “raise the very specter of the end against which they are so concerned to defend.” (Wyatt). In his two short stories, “Hills Like White Elephants” and “A Clean-Well Lighted Place, Hemingway draws out this uncanny effect in anticipating the sense of an ending. He paints this very minimalistic style, “only centering on surface elements without giving explicit content of the underlying themes”(Wyatt) he creates. He wants readers to depict what’s below the surface, letting the crux emit through.

Seeing as there can be a number of different themes in a story, Ernest Hemingway does not hold back from ever giving the reader a chance to fall in love with the story. The reader’s first glimpse of reality in the story is shot through the depths of the theme. One of the most common themes in the book is war. War marks and defines the characters in the book. It is the death in their eyes and fear in their hearts. The reader knows this. Because the reader can easily define war as one of the major themes in this book, the reader can also feel the loss and pain that the characters experience throughout the story as well.

In the biography “Ernest Hemingway-Biographical” (1969), Horst Frenz asserts that Ernest Hemingway was an influential writer who left behind a legacy of classic novels. Frenz develops his ideas by describing Hemingway’s unique childhood, famous array of novels (“The Old Man and the Sea”) , and concludes by discussing Hemingway’s distinctive writing style (“spare dialogue”). Using specific details and personal stories, he explains Hemingway’s notable contributions to society in order to portray Hemingway as an American hero who has influenced countless people. Frenz’s audience includes those who have read Hemingway’s works and those who seek more information about him, as he describes Hemingway’s life in an informative tone.

Disillusionment does not merely occur in only novels; every single individual to walk the Earth will experience mental displeasure at some point within their lives. Nevertheless, many choose to let unfortunate events circle within their souls and become encrypted into their memory. Once this happens, the role of aimlessness takes its course, adverse fate reigns, and the feeling of disenchantment dwells in the mind. Hemingway’s novel, The Sun Also Rises, grasps this very subject in a subliminal way; one must accurately analyze Hemingway’s somber tone and sparse writing style in order to find the hidden symbolism and themes captured within this literary work. His protagonist, Jake Barnes, has certainly experienced prodigious pain, but

Everyone is born to live and to die. People go through life fearing the inevitable which in the end is always death. Ernest Hemingway wrote two short stories that examine this idea of life and death through the use of a variety of different symbols. In both “Indian Camp” and “The Killers”, Hemingway examines these ideas by putting forth a character named Nick Adams. Nick Adams develops as a character throughout these stories ultimately learning lessons about life and death that will better his understanding of the world. Nick goes from having an imperfect immature understanding of death in the “Indian Camp” to a more mature and grown up understanding in “The Killers”. In “Indian Camp”, Nick believes that the only way one will die is if they kill themselves. Nicks father also brings Nick to the Indian Camp where his father will deliver a baby. Nicks father wants Nick to watch the birth and learn the importance of life, but instead the procedure takes a turn for the worst and Nick becomes disturbed by what he sees. In “The Killers”, Nicks understanding of death becomes more understood when he notices how Ole Anderson has given up on life and has ultimately taught Nick the lesson that death is inevitable. By his use of light and characters lying down in bed facing the wall in both “The Killers” and “Indian Camp”, Hemingway is attempting to show us how Nick develops a better understanding of light and death.

There are a million ways to read a story, a million perspectives to choose from, a million lenses to closely examine every carefully written word. When taking on a reading persona, when looking through one of these lenses, the story can be seen in a light completely alien to what is shown on the surface. One can see the story through the eyes of the famous communist politician Karl Marx, the psychologist Sigmund Freud, or even the feminist Susan B. Anthony. With each of these perspectives comes a set of important analytical questions that break the story apart and delve deeper into the author’s true meaning. One such author famous for hiding a deeper meaning beneath the surface of his stories is Ernest Hemingway. By analyzing literature through the Marxist and Postcolonial lenses, one can see Hemingway’s inner thoughts about how people view and interact with each other, on both a classist and racist level.