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    matter that authors have no choice but to get creative. One of the most famous, classic American writers and journalists was Ernest Hemmingway. Ernest Hemmingway had one of the most unique writing styles of all time. His distinctive writing style, characterized by economy and understatement, influenced 20th-century fiction, as did his life of adventure and public image. Ernest Hemingway's fictional style of writing was successful due to the fact that the characters he presented exhibited authenticity

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    Soon after the release of his book, he and his first wife Hadley got divorced, due to an affair that Ernest had with a woman named Pauline Pfeiffer. Shortly after the divorced from his first wife, he continued to work on his story book, “Men without Women”. These short stories are a catalog collection of different subjects from infidelity on both sides and his many divorces. Hemmingway moved back to the states after his second wife became pregnant, and his book “Farewell to Arms” was released around

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    Ernest Hemmingway is known for his barren and minimal stories; thus, his work requires one to think deeply about what is happening. In turn, this often leads to a greater understanding of his stories. One cannot just skim over Hemmingway’s literature, they have to decipher the movement and underlying meaning behind his words, basically, one can think of it like this—a silent movie does not have words, inversely, Hemmingway’s stories had words, but did not illustrate thoughts and movement. This was

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    “Hills Like White Elephants,” Ernest Hemmingway allows a superficial plot to symbolically display a conflict between choice of destination as a couple’s discussion between train rides. The layers of description and dialog manipulate a small moment of time and demonstrate that a human choice can range while perspective shifts the understood potential of the landscape. By crafting an intricate story that is filled with symbolism and overlapping complexities, Hemmingway provides a sophisticated short

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    “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemmingway is a short story about a man and woman succumbing to society’s unjust view of the female-male relationship. Although, there is more to the story than just the oppression and powerlessness of a woman and the controlling, cunning nature of a man, one must first focus their attention on the formal elements of the story before examining the gender aspect of it. There are some significance in how parts of the text relate to one another and to the whole

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    “Hills Like White Elephants” By Ernest Hemmingway is an interesting piece that consists entirely of an odd conversation between two people sitting at a train station in Spain, having drinks while they wait on their ride. The couple do not have names, just “The American” and “The Girl” who is also called “Jig” a time or two by The American. Hemmingway uses these characters and their actions along with the setting and symbolism to paint a beautiful picture of an untruthful relationship and a secretive

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    literature and arts of the olden times, which occurred in the 20th century, with a shift towards an avant-garde style and movements (Dictionary.com). One famous literary work to come out of this thought change was The Big Two-Hearted River by Ernest Hemmingway. Hemmingway belonged to the pioneer writing members of the modernist genre known as the Lost Generation. This cohort believed in literature that focused internally

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    Katherine Mansfield and Ernest Hemmingway are both published writers. One was born in New Zealand and the other in the United States during the late 19th century. This paper will compare and contrast the setting, plot, imagery, climax, and theme between Mansfield’s “Miss Brill” and Hemmingway’s “Cat in the Rain.” The setting in “Miss Brill” takes place in a public garden in France. The story states the band plays in the Jardins Publiques (Public Gardens) in France (15). Miss Brill, the protagonist

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    who has hit the ground with force. That feeling of flying above the other child lasts three seconds before they are the one crashing to the ground. Up and down, up and down. In order for the child to go up, the other one must go down. Similarly, in Ernest Hemingway's short stories, in order for a character to rise up above others, they force another to go down. In Hemingway’s stories, Americans tend to validate themselves by belittling others. A wife takes advantage of her husband, a man covers up

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    society often avoids talking about due to the fear of creating a political uproar resulting from the opinion of one individual. Therefore, it should come as a surprise that one would find Hills Like White Elephants, a short story written by Ernest Hemmingway in 1927, that solely revolves around the idea of abortion. Within the decade or so prior to Hemmingway’s story, abortion was something that was often not discussed or written about in papers unless the result of the abortion was the death of

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