Sacrifice Of A Soldier In Fitzgerald's Tragic Hero

     One of the most interesting components of Jordan's character is her carelessness, in driving, as well as in life. She states, 'It takes two to make an accident,'; implying that she can be careless herself. The way she says this statement makes it seem as if she were saying, 'I can do whatever I want -- other people have to watch out for me.'; She has quite a sense of self-confidence, as well as pride in herself and in her actions. She is not afraid to speak her mind, and also puts herself above others. All of these elements composing her personality are indicative of the

Sadness, frustration, or discontent, however it’s put, there is an obvious difference with the characters in, “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” by Ernest Hemingway, and their ideas of mortality and old age. The short story shows the concept of “nothingness,” displayed through a very depressing view on life. This suggesting that all people, even those who are happy and content, will eventually end up lonely, drunk, or unhappy. By allowing a reader to view this from three diverse perspectives, Hemingway is able to render how someone’s attitude of their own life can go from one extreme to another. Allowing suicide as a final option to surface for some.

The second difference between these stories, is the details of social class. Although it is not the most important detail about the characters, it still holds key information about the types of people they are. In Hemingway’s story the characters are of a higher class. They are able to travel the world, and when he is trying to persuade her to abort the child, he promises

n the book In Our Time, by Ernest Hemingway, rather than him describing the setting and characters, Hemingway uses vivid stories to give a series of impressions and memories that may at first confuse the reader, but eventually adds a deeper understanding of what Hemingway is trying to convey through the repetition of birth and death . The author uses repetition of the cycle of life [beginning and end] to convey masculinity as it relates to empathy and hope through Nick’s character development throughout the book. Nick’s father often demonstrates masculinity and empathy which is unlike the other male characters. As Nick matures throughout the book, he witnesses traditional male roles being challenged by his father which ultimately provides a deeper understanding of human nature.

Scholars and critics often use this short story as a jumping off point when exploring the development of Hemingway's approach to writing and his narrative style. The characters, Jim and Liz, are like many of Hemingway's characters in that they are disinclined to philosophize, are prone to action, learn from experience, and avoid abstract

Through their lives and distinct writing styles, these authors of similar times and caliber, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway have created vastly different works of literature that are still praised as American classics. These differences, as significantly prevalent in their style, allow readers to understand their lives and experiences through the stories. The dialogue, as the primary vector of this contrast, conveys the materials and information needed to understand the authors as individuals and in turn, their literature. Therefore, through the dialogue presented in Hemingway’s and Fitzgerald’s writing, important characteristics are easily discerned that provide insight into the characters’ interactions as well as the effect it has

To mirror the couple’s confusion of life verses death through abortion, Hemingway arranges words and phrases to establish the story indirectly. While most who visit Europe enjoy it, literature and movies

The novel, The Great Gatsby, is an amazingly detailed and intriguing story of a young former soldier whose determination and illusions of a grander life drive him to rise from humble beginnings. Through luck or destiny, he meets a stunning young woman whose wealthy life was something he would only ever dream

While Faulkner writes with complex, disorganized sentences, and Hemingway writes more simply, both unique author’s distinctive styles capture the feeling of discontentment in their fictional characters, such as Jake, in The Sun Also Rises, and Darl in, As I Lay Dying, by supplying insight on their daily life and the environment surrounding them. While Jake’s discontentment is caused by a war wound, and Darl’s sadness is created by his mother’s death, Jake tries to conceal his emotions while Darl chooses to confront his issues directly. In, The Sun Also Rises, Jake Barnes is described as being physically damaged because of a war wound that impaired him during WWI. This is the cause for Jake’s discontentment.

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

Jordan is described as “ incurably dishonest. She wasn’t able to endure being a disadvantage and, given this unwillingness, I suppose she had begun dealing in subterfuges when she was very young in order to keep that cool, insolent smile turned to the world and yet satisfy the demands of her hard, jaunty body.” Jordan does not give in to her emotions and, as mentioned previously, generally put on a cool and distant demeanor. Again, this characterization reinforces the ways in which Jordan does not allow stereotypical ideologies surrounding female fragileness to get in her way or disadvantage her in any way. She disconnects from her emotions in an attempt to compete within a male dominated world and succeed in that context. A context, which she has decided, is more significant than that of a household. Jordan embodies the new feminist ideal and through her character, Fitzgerald emphasizes the ways in which women must manipulate the patriarchal system in which they exist in order to succeed. It is through Jordan that a manipulation of a corrupt system is established and made

B. One theme in the novel is the aimless and purposelessness of the “Lost Generation”. Hemingway was himself a member of the lost generation and expresses this in his book. After the war most people did not have a sense of morality or values. They just did whatever they felt would make them happy.

He then dismisses his negative thoughts by stating “many must have it,” when we know his problems are far much more than simple insomnia, but moreover his constant battle with “nothingness” and from the vast world around him. (Hemingway 3). The reader can perceive the purpose of “nada” through Hemingway’s unemotional dialogue and point of view, allowing them to be able to discern the affliction of the older men compared to the fulfilled life of the younger

The story is concerned with “age, death, despair, love, the boredom of life, two elderly men seeking sleep and forgetfulness, cast into an hour and a place whose silence and emptiness creates a sad mood in which patience and futility feebly strive with one another” (O’Faolain 24). Why does the old man attempt suicide? “He was in despair. What about? Nothing” (Hemingway 1). The nothing that drives the man to kill himself is “the despair beyond plenty of money, the despair which makes a sleeplessness beyond insomnia, the despair felt by a man who hungers for the certainties and meaningfulness of a religious faith but who cannot find in his world a ground for that faith” (Warren 20). Through such hopelessness, Nada defeats all.

Jordan’s mother was not necessarily crazy, but she was involved in a few elicit activities. She could find no comfort where others could. Unfortunately, Jordan, an impressionable and young tot was similar to A.A. Milne’s Tigger in that she bounced from place to place never knowing that it could different. This wanderlust lifestyle still pervades every moment of adult Jordan’s life as she tries to reconcile the ramshackle life in which she was raised with what anyone today would call a normal home existence.