... . . . . I did not love Catherine Barkley nor had any idea of loving her. This was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards. Like bridge you had to pretend you were playing for money or playing for some stakes. Nobody had mentioned what the stakes were." (Hemingway, Ernest; 31) Social forms and conventions become extremely important as Henry and Catherine ... dialogue, with no description--the standards of decency in 1929 America would have barred a more explicit version from appearing in print although it would not make any difference if written now. Neverth...

• Word Count: 1181
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... and ferocious Joe DiMaggio is!" "Have faith in Yankee, my son." Here, he associates himself closely with the old DiMaggio. DiMaggio is a great baseball player, but now his is old and no longer the great champion he once was. However, in Santiago's opinion, it is will, pride and endurance rather than strength that make a ... strength, nor of great fish, nor of fights, nor of contests, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and of the lions on the beach." He is old now and his youth or strength is left behind him. His dreams give him more courage and confidence which help him to c...

• Word Count: 2478
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

... liked the freedom in which he had over there. When he did come back, noone wanted to hear his war stories because everyone had heard them before. Now, as he comes back, all his friends in town had gotten jobs and gotten married, but Harold decides this is not the life for him. He wants ... them. Instead, he decides to be a bum and just stroll around and play pool. Many things have changed for Harold since the war. His parents are now treating him differently and he has a different outlook on life. His parents said he could take the car out, which is something they never let him do ... ...

• Word Count: 1304
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... a fish. He fights to the end, but is ultimatley defeated when the sharks devour his prize. Santiago puts up a great fight, but takes defeat calmly: "He knew he was beaten now finally and without remedy the old man paid no attention to them and did not pay attention to anything except steering. He only noticed how lightly and how well the ... skiff sailed now there was no great weight beside her." Honor in defeat also can be seen in London's work: "His idea of it was that he had been making a fool of himself ... way Christ handled death. Both stories show some idea of heaven as well. Sa...

• Word Count: 1216
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... hospital to visit Frederic. Ranildi keeps Frederic's mind off of the war by talking about Frederic's one love, Catherine. "Have you seen Miss Barkley? I will bring her here. I will go now and bring her here."" (pg. 64) Knowing that talking about Catherine to Frederic keeps Frederic's mind clear and completely focused on Catherine, Ranildi uses this as a tactic to keep Frederic ... the Swiss navy.""(pg. 276) To this Catherine replies, "If we're in Switzerland let's have a big breakfast. They have wonderful rolls and butter and jam in Switzerland."" (pg. 276) Playing the role of the optim...

• Word Count: 1289
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... Krebs remains in a safety zone on the front porch, he is protected. The girls walk on the other side of the street; nothing can touch him" (102). Krebs is now free from any pattern set by the society. He is beyond any dictations of the community. No matter how much his mother tries to drag him back into the society ... the community, but Harold needs a while longer to figure out what he wants to do. After coming from war he spends much of his time waking up late, reading books, playing pools, walking around, and watching girls across the street (122-123). His attitude towards life makes...

• Word Count: 2202
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... rather heavily with the other officers and goes with them to the local bordello. Him and his friend Rinaldi often talk about girls and the women of the bordello. "Here now we have beautiful girls. New girls never been to the front before" (11). Henry is happy with his flings and does not think much about them except that they are ... first is only interested in her physically like he is with the other girls. When he goes the next couple of afternoons to see her he acts like he is playing a game. One visit he tries to kiss her and gets slapped for it but this only worked to his advantage...

• Word Count: 244
• Approx Pages: 1
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... and maintain one's dignity in an often unkind and heartless world. Another symbol shown in the novel was the lions which where a sign of courage. "He only dreamed of places now and of the lions on the beach. They played like young cats in the dusk and he loved them." Santiago was a sailor in his youth, and traveled to Africa, where ... he saw young lions playing on the beach. Dreaming about the lions each night provides Santiago with a link to his younger days, as well as the strength and optimism that are associated with youth. "A man ... ...

• Word Count: 652
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... pursue at home. Krebs also did not want to spend the time searching for a job. He would rather spend his days reading and playing pool. When his mother asks him what he has plans to do with his life now, he simply replies ""I hadn't thought about it"" (156). He finally complies with his mother and decides that he will "go to Kansas ... ...

• Word Count: 964
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... on his own life experiences. He spent much of his childhood hunting and fishing with his father in the woods of northern Michigan. He enjoyed physical activity, like boxing and playing football. After volunteering for the American Red Cross as an ambulance driver, he was seriously injured but went on to join the Italian infantry. Following World War I, Hemingway returned to ... - (Hemingway 55). At night, Santiago dreams of lions. He is getting weaker and weaker, and the lions represent Santiago's youth and strength that he once had and needs so badly now (Hemingway, 1980). To Santiago, ...

• Word Count: 3224
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

... that are strikingly clean and unused in comparison to Wilson's runs parallel with an easterner going to the west in fringed breaches and a wide brimmed cowboy's hat, he's just a "tourist" playing at being a hunter with his professional hunters and comfortable surroundings. Macomber also allows his wife and others to control him. When Macomber's wife insists on joining them on their quest ... four-letter man as well as a bloody coward, he thought"(32). But after Macomber's show of courage hunting the buffalo Wilson's attitude towards him warms "But he liked this Macomber now"(54). Theref...

• Word Count: 1102
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... share in his first wife Hadley's interest in the piano (1). Hemingway received his formal schooling in the Oak Park public school system. In high school he was mediocre at sports, playing football, swimming, water basketball and serving as the track team manager (1). He also worked on the school newspaper called the Trapeze. Hemingway graduated in the spring of 1917 and instead ... on and running away from the army. This symbolism was the water that he jumped into was a symbolism of the new, clean life that he was going to live from now on. At this time, Henry goes off and finds his wif...

• Word Count: 2109
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

... should be about the future while Catherine lives in the present. Catherine tries to get Henry to, again, step outside his comfort zone. Catherine also knows that Henry is just playing a game with her, to be with her just for sex. When Henry realizes he is in love, he starts to act childish and Catherine says that she will do what ... ...

• Word Count: 588
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... go out of his way in order to please his dad or keep a conversation going. On the day that his father got fired, Tiller came home and heard his father playing his guitar, and Tiller "dropped his bookbag on the telephone stand. 'Hi Dad, 'he said" (Boyle 4). Greeting parents upon one's arrival at home is always a custom for ... ...

• Word Count: 1003
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... and he wants to introduce her to him. Frederic is smitten with Catherine from the beginning. He likes the idea of falling in love with someone. Frederic and Catherine begin playing this love game with one another. The rising action continues with Mr. Henry and Catherine continuing to find small amounts of given time to spend with one another. In the ... ...

• Word Count: 1000
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... a few days. Who knows if he is beginning to get a little senile, or is Santiago just letting his mind wander? What is really going on out at sea? Is Santiago playing mind games with himself? Santiago is out on the sea trying to reel in this huge marlin fish, and is struggling mentally as well as physically. Santiago is trying to ... ...

• Word Count: 990
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... washed away from violence and horror. At this point he learns to say farewell to the war because he finds something greater, his love for Catherine. Frederic Henry started out playing a silly game with Catherine's mind. He said, "I love you" in the beginning when he knew that he didn't. As he began to spend more time with her and see her ... ...

• Word Count: 745
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... clear that he does not intend to fall in love with her. He says plainly that he does not love her and he has no intention to. He is only playing a game with her, like bridge, in which words are used instead of cards (Hemingway 30). His intentions are only to play this cruel game with Catherine to get her into ... ...

• Word Count: 543
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... . I think the most important relationship is a father-son relationship. A father-son relationship is very while your son is young. A father should spend time with his son even if it's by playing catch, going to movie, or by going fishing. A good father-son relationship is a father that teaches his son right and wrong. There are so many things a father can teach his ... ...

• Word Count: 639
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... the iceberg."" (Plimpton p 126) Certainly, there are moments when the reader feels the suggestion of vast meaning beneath Hemingway's few, spare words. Santiago's beautiful and elusive memory of the lions playing on the beach suggests another world and another time, while his unexpected gratitude that man does "not have to kill the stars- signals a profound inner life of which the reader ... ...

• Word Count: 2697
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

... been The Writers Struggle, A Christian Allegory, and the Religion of Man. Yet they still continue to rip every detail of the book apart. Some feel that Santiago's memory of lions playing on beach symbolizes another time or world. Philip Young offers an answer to this question when he suggests that "the novel is a parable, but one for life itself, and thus ... ...

• Word Count: 2253
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

... symbolic of the force pulling against him. The great fish is almost like his competitor; he has respect for it, but also wants to overcome it. The sea is a vast playing field on which the struggle takes place, but is also the get away or safe haven for the old man to which he looks towards as a good place. The reference ... ...

• Word Count: 567
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... more. The old man returns to sleep and dreams his usual dream of lions at play on the beaches of Africa. In the scene, Santiago imagines the lions, fierce predators, playing. This shows how his dream suggests a harmony between the opposing forces; life and death love and hate, as well as destruction and regeneration of nature. Hemingway portrays great value of ... ...

• Word Count: 1004
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... never limited and the events of the story just seemed to happen. After he rebukes himself for his arrogance with the marlin, Santiago goes home and dreams of the lions playing in Africa, signaling a cycle of a child-like rebirth through Manolin. Throughout the story many aspects can be found about Santiago's personality merely by the content of his 3-day fight with ... ...

• Word Count: 1434
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

... themselves with the support they need. Many modern couples can identify with these aspects of this novel and the problems that occur in their relationship, but cannot assume the love-playing role. By reading this book it can enlighten couples of what true love should be. In many of our relationships we have encountered problems that we fail to over come ... ...

• Word Count: 1007
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School