Mental Renaissance: Ernest Hemingway And Winter Dreams

     Dexter in the story started off as a very young boy who worked as a caddy at a golf course. There he met Miss Jones for the very first time. Judy Jones was a beautiful, young woman who came from a glittery family, but was also very cunning with her “preposterous smile” . Dexter was very

The Wendat had strong trading, political and social relations with the Petun, Neutral, Odawa (Ottawa), Nipissing and the Algonquin nations of Georgian Bay and the Ottawa Valley (Heidenreich, 2011). With these nations they exchanged surplus corn, beans and cord made of hemp. In 1609 they joined the military/trading alliance that the Innu and Algonquin had forged with the French by participating in a raid against the Mohawk (Heidenreich, 2011).

… They interfered with the perfect ugliness of the place; they were too beautiful; they said too much that we could not understand; they did not make sense.” This quote exemplifies a clear depiction of the ignorance of immaturity and a brilliant use of imagery. Collier creates the scene using descriptive words and attaches them to the reader's mind, one can see the torrid flowers and disfigured house. These images capture the author's feelings of disarray and discombobulation, which all contribute to Eugenia Collier's voice.  These feelings lead to the character uprising to adulthood.

America had a huge industrial revolution in the late 1800’s. The process was slow, but many changes were made. Americans found it more profitable to make a living on a farm. There were many changes in our nation like new technology, a lot of immigrants into our country , and different/new views on our government. All of these factors helped to promote a huge industrial revolution.

Dexter and Judy meets due to Dexter´s caddy job at Lake Erminie, where Judy is the daughter of a high class family, while Dexter is a middle class. He immediately sees that “the spark, however, was perceptible” (Fitzgerald 2187), and he wants to become the man of her dreams. During the story Dexter´s returns as a man Judy wanted to eat dinner with, but it did not take long before we see the signs of her willingly talking about how she wants a man who is well-heeled, “he told me out of a clear blue sky that he was poor as a church-mouse” (Fitzgerald 2193). As the conversation flows Dexter starts talking about his own wealth, and Judy immediately shows interest for him, but it was not enough for her that he was wealthy.

The most overwhelming tone in the novella “Good Will” by Jane Smiley is disappointment. In chapter two Smiley uses the concrete image of the “sheep” to introduce the complication showing the beginning of the Miller’s lives unraveling. Smiley gives Liz the concrete image of the “sparrow” introducing on part of the rising action. Another passage that depicts the rising action is Tommy Miller’s “foal.” Nearing the end of the novella Smiley displays the concrete image of the “satellite dish” to build up to the climax of the story.

Smith, Paul. A Reader’s Guide to the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway. Boston: G. K. Hall & Co. 1989. Print.

Imagine walking out towards the White House in Washington D.C. and seeing the American flag burn in flames. Seeing people act irrational. How would you react? In the document “American Flag stands for tolerance” and imagine them burning the flag. Just think how people accepted the fact of the burning the flag, because they didn’t accept it.

When he meets Judy Jones, a beautiful, vibrant young woman, he sees in her an embodiment of a glittering world of excitement and promise. Judy represents for him the epitome of what he considers to be the intense and passionate life of the American elite. Through her, Dexter hopes to experience all the benefits that he believes this lifestyle can give him. At the beginning of their relationship, he is overjoyed. His senses become fine-tuned to the rare world that he has encountered.

He later desires to obtain wealth through material success. Dexter becomes materialistic and loses sight of what he wants the most in life all because of Judy. In the end he loses

     In Hemingway’s collection of short stories, In Our Time, we follow a character by the name of Nick Adams. We are introduced to Nick in “Indian Camp” as a young boy, and follow him to adulthood in both Parts I and II of “Big Two-Hearted River”. Through this we see Nick develop and learn about some major facts of life. Nick is a character who changes through the effects of war on many different levels. Although Hemingway hardly mentions the war, he uses the stories to express different effects and emotions caused by the war.

The period between World War I and World War II was a very turbulent time in America. Ernest Hemingway most represented this period with his unrestrained lifestyle. This lifestyle brought him many successes, but it eventually destroyed him in the end. His stories are read in classrooms across America, but his semi-autobiographical writings are horrible role models for the students who read them. Hemingway’s lifestyle greatly influenced his writings in many ways.

“Big Two Hearted River”, a semi-autobiographical short story by Ernest Hemingway, is a story about the main character, Nick, returning to Big Two Hearted River in order to recover from his inner wounds. Nick Adams goes on a journey alone in nature for a therapeutic purpose as he suffers from PTSD. However, Hemingway purposely avoided any direct discussion regarding to Nick’s mental wounds. The absence of the discussion is contributed by Hemingway’s writing style, the Iceberg principle. Hemingway focuses explicitly on what occurs on the surface without mentioning actual theme. This indicates that the theme of self-healing cannot be uncovered by simply looking at the text itself. In order to comprehend the actual theme of the story, the character development of Nick must be examined. This is possible since Nick Adams is a recurring character of Hemingway’s stories. The two preceding stories of “Big Two Hearted River”, “Now I lay me” and “A Way you’ll Never Be”, directly discusses Nick’s suffering from shell-shock and how he comforts himself by returning to Big Two Hearted river in his mind. The two short stories will be analyzed and connected to “Big Two Hearted River” in the essay first. This will provide a strong understanding of Nick’s psyche and the reason behind his return to nature. Then, “Big Two Hearted River” the short story itself will be carefully analyzed.

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.

Because Dexter’s life is unintentionally controlled by these dreams, he does not realize that he is being driven toward material success. He is unaware that these dreams are leading him to fall in love with the woman who stands at the core of his materialistic fantasies. His complete focus in life becomes geared toward “gaining the love of a beautiful woman who expresses the glamour and promise of the exclusive world” (Perkins). Dexter begins to strongly believe that Judy Jones is his key to unlocking the world of the rich and wealthy. By illustrating the luxurious lifestyle of Judy Jones, Fitzgerald reveals how she represents, to Dexter, what life is like for the rich and prosperous.