Latin-American literature

Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner were two of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. While they lived during the same period, their writing styles differed drastically. This can be seen in texts such as Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” and “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” and Faulkner’s “Barn Burning”. Hemingway’s style puts little focus on specific character details, which makes his stories seem like they could be about any person, including the reader, while Faulkner’s

“A Rose For Emily” By William Faulkner and “ Soldiers Home” By Ernest Hemingway are to great short stories. If you ever read these short stories one might argue that both author used the Biographical and Psychological reading strategy to describe the dynamics of each main character throughout the storries. In “ A Rose For Emily “ the main character was a lady name MIss Emily who was born into a family that was very wealthy, she was describes as a small fat women who lives in a modernizing town full

The preacher’s speech from chapter ten of The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck and the poem I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman both contain many stylistic devices that convey these American authors’ purposes of revealing the common man. Whitman and Steinbeck both write about occupations and people in the working class to bring these often overlooked citizens to attention. Although Whitman illustrates his purpose through the use of poetry, and Steinbeck through prose, the literary devices they

Is and will staus always be more important than character? Status is a social understanding in relation to someone or something. Fitzgerald's definition of status is how people view you and treat you based on what they know about you. The emphasis on status in society in Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is how you are treated and viewed based on status instead of character. People view other people by status in The Great Gatsby, instead of their character. In the book Tom says “I’ve got my man working

of Mississippi, and Flannery O’ Connor, a native of Georgia, are widely recognized as two of the most important and challenging American writers of fiction in the 20th century. Both of them are also two of the most typical writers who use the Southern Gothic style in their stories, which employs the use of ghastly, ironic events to investigate the values of the American South, such as A Rose for Emily of Faulkner, and A Good Man Is Hard to Find of O’ Connor. In the story A Rose for Emily, one of

received millions of positive and negative criticisms. It is also the most regarded American literary exemplary. The story is told from first person perspective. The perspective Frederic an American ambulance driver in the Italian army during War. He falls in love with an English nurse, Catherine, and he experiences the pain and loss in war and in life. Even though it is one of the most revered books in American literature, there has been many criticism about Hemingway’s portrayal of gender roles. According

been a vexed novel for it 's a use of the “N-word”. However, many scholars and associations have devised a “solution” for this problem such as, completely banning the book, creating sanitized versions, or even replacing the book for another American literature novel. “What is so wrong

A Farewell to Arms is acclaimed author Ernest Hemingway’s second standalone novel, published in 1929. The novel is set on the battlefront of World War I and tells the tragic love story of Frederic Henry, an American ambulance driver in the Italian army, and Catherine Barkley, a grieving British nurse. Joel Armstrong’s article, “‘A Powerful Beacon’: Love Illuminating Human Attachment in Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms”, provides an in-depth analysis of the use of love throughout the novel, supported

Automobiles in The Great Gatsby and Grapes of Wrath The novels, The Great Gatsby and The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck and F. Scott Fitzgerald, respectively, follow the lives of several characters each of whom have very different experiences. Gatsby is a very wealthy man who tries to win over Daisy, while the Joads are very poor and try to avoid getting on the government’s bad side. Along with these differences, there are some similarities between them, such as the significance of their automobiles

The narrator of Fitzgerald’s quintessential American novel, Nick Carraway is a complicated and often ambiguous character. Because little is said about him, many aspects of his personality are left open to interpretation. Despite a lack of direct characterization, many speculations can be made from more indirect characterization. As many high school English students and scholars alike have pointed out, it is possible to read Nick Carraway as gay, given the book’s hefty subtext. Substantial evidence