In this story, Arrogance is the crisis of conscience that is the root of all evil. It is symbolically understood that Harry’s personality is reflected from his past. Harry used women to climb up the social chain in life. This crisis of conscience is clearly represented through the emotional juxtaposition of his love for Helen. This is shown when Harry emphasizes to Helen that he does not love her when he says, “…you know I love you. I’ve never loved any one else the way I love you…You bitch…You rich bitch. That’s poetry. I’m full of poetry now”(254). The duality of the quote is Harry expressing his love for H

elen, as he truly does love her but he his emotionally afraid to love. Ironically love to Harry only increases greater pain. The tone that Hemingway expresses Harry’s character is that of anger. This strong emotion of anger is continuously taken out on Helen, as she is selfless. This is judged to be mistreating on women and considered to many to be verbally abuse. Helen takes the brunt of Harry’s wrath on herself, as her fault. Harry is afraid to show emotion, as he must be the hero. Helen attempts to liven Harry’s conscience by telling him, “If you have to go away, is it absolutely necessary to kill off everything you left behind? I mean do you have to take away everything? Do you have to kill your horse, and your wife and burn your saddle and your armour?” (253) Helens repetition of taking the blame allows her to be the bigger hero. Harry is drowning in self-pity that he is not able to realize that he is falling in love. Arrogance is a strong enough emotion to kill a person inside surroundings, symbolically Harry has reached the top of the social chain still do die heroic and alone.

To love, or to be loved is a special feeling in which the protagonist had a hard time accepting “Oh Harry, that’s not fair, I love you, I’ll always love you, don’t you love me?” (255) Companionship is a two way street, Harry was afraid to commit, therefore companionship did not work out for Harry and Helen. The denotation of companionship is two people that match or go together. Metaphorically H

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