Many of Hemmingway's stories point to a consuming nothingness in peoples lives as the cause of much of this ominous despair and darkness. ... The old man is described as being old and deaf, and rather fond of going to the café at night because it "now at night it was quite and he felt the difference."" ... Hemingway even goes so far as to describe the young man as stupid, "speaking with that omission of syntax stupid people employ when talking to drunken people or foreigners,"" when he sends the old man away from the café. ...

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They remind the men of people dying as the flame of the flares brought them back to the battlefield where explosions took place and thousands of lives were taken in seconds. We imagine the soldiers as being tired and due a break from the ceaseless fighting as they stroll towards their distant rest because the passage states that the men where "deaf even to the hoots of gas-shells dropping softly behind" and, "Drunk with fatigue". ...

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Many laws prohibited interracial marriages and people rejected the possibility of interracial children. ... Many people suffered from hunger and died of influenza. ... Many people believed that Mark lived a "charmed life". ... Similarly, many wartime artists emerged and captured the feelings and attitudes of people in war-torn England. ... Many people "treated him as if he were something nasty that a passing horse had left behind" (Pg. 61). ...

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