Category: Ernest Hemingway

The theme of art is one of the central topics that Hemingway uncovers in A Moveable Feast, which is closely connected to the authors experience of poverty and his development as a writer. The way Hemingway portrays art in his works is praiseworthy because his direct writing style allows seeing how he approached writing as…

Soldiers Home and How to Tell a True War Story are short stories written about the wars. In the Soldiers House, Hemingway narrates the time after the First World War, and OBrien connects the events with the Vietnam War. In a comparison of OBriens description of war with Hemingway, it can be noticed that they…

Hills like white elephants, is a sort story written by Ernest Hemingway. It is an important piece of Ernests work from his second collection of short stories Men without women. Hills like white elephants could be tagged as one of the best writings by Earnests. What makes Ernests Hills like white elephants so fascinating is…

In Hemingways A Soldiers Home, the main character experiences apathy for a multitude of reasons. Harold Krebs was trained in a way that made him void of any empathy. The disinterest towards maintaining normal relationships or any mundane hobbies settled in after the return to civilian life (Hemingway 2). This lethargic state was not only…

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway, a prominent American writer. It describes the nights late hours when an old deaf man is sitting in a café while two waiters are waiting him to leave as they want to close the place and go home. The waiters discuss the old…

If there is one universal quality that describes humans, it is the unwillingness to confront or accept harsh realities like death, terminal illness, and loss. This human nature is seen in humankinds attempt to downplay the seriousness of issues through the use of euphemisms, ignoring painful truths, and the use of colorful language and metaphors…

The given analysis will primarily focus on Ernest Hemingways Hills Like White Elephants. It is a short story about a man and a woman who are having a conversation at a Spanish train station and waiting for their train to Madrid. The key theme abortion, where a male character wants his partner to have the…

Hills like white elephants is a heartbreaking story about two beloveds who are going to make a fatal decision in their lives. This story depicts a couple whose relationship has poorly changed because of the womans unexpected pregnancy. The pregnancy implies the end of their frivolous life full of pleasure and traveling. The man tries…

The fear of darkness is the fear of nothingness in which our lives are steeped. This central idea runs through Ernest Hemingways short story A Clean, Well-Lighted Place. The author tells a tale of an old man who sits in a clean, well-lit café in the late hours of the night past closing time. He…

The themes of loneliness and alienation are shared among all writers of the Lost Generation. The desire to find a home and return to everyday life after the war influenced the styles of Hemingway and Faulkner. Similar life experiences encourage writers to depict events in dark tones, full of ambiguity with vague and unclear closure.…