... author should write about things which he really knows"." (Morgan 5) Hemingway would always insist on writing about what he knew and refused to exaggerate or speculate, choosing instead to write characters he understood who spoke about things he had experienced. A word often used to describe aspects of Hemingway's prose or the central element of his style as a whole is 'simple', but ... structure is simple, the observations are factual, precise. There is an emphasis on tactile sensation and clear, observable elements of the scene. As Fishkin puts it: "Hemingway would have his characters...

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... experience for a young boy like Nick. As if the observation of a horrendous nativity was not enough for poor Nick Adams" eyes, his father's discovery of the husband's suicide, in which a razor was used to cut the man's throat from ear to ear, was sure to burn an image in his mind that would haunt him for the rest of his life ... ...

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... his autobiographical novel "The Sun also Rises". According to this novel, I'm/we going to analyze the main issues of this phenomenon; relying on the characters of the novel, I will describe the problems, the motives, the moral, the psychological and the social aspects of the fate of the "Lost ... the postwar years, people seeing no hope, no clear purpose, who are bearing the experience of the front until the end of the days. The characters of the novel alienated themselves from their family and home, where they can not return to a stereotypical former life. The War damaged their health,...

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... of both positive and negative elements are fundamental in creating an enriching and realistic story. Bearing that in mind, readers cannot simply understand the behavior of the novel's characters until they develop an understanding that the unexpected lies beneath the fazade of the 1920's generation. Additionally, the settings and actions that Hemingway obliquely depict reveal a practical ... in the significant amounts of wealth that they have inherited from their elders. As a result of such vivid explanations and detail regarding the seemingly exciting lives of these characters, the rea...

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... the men's exploitation of women in American society. His point is made clear through the way he withholds extemporaneous information, his portrayal of the characters, and his use of symbols. When reading a story it is important to decide what issues the author is discussing, in his story Hemingway ... He prevents the reader from focusing on the actually relationship or the couples past by giving the reader very limited amounts of information about the characters and their history. By withholding information he prevents the reader from focusing on this particular relationship or on its hi...

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... lifetime is constantly modifying who they are as a person. Therefore, there are circumstances when a writer's personal experience can influence the story told in their novel, with changing the narrative and characters to transform a personal experiences into a realistic fictional story. Stephen Crane is a prime example of this approach in his short story "The Open Boat". This story was inspired ... ever of how/ why Gregor has become this "monstrous - vermin" is a completely untraditional way to begin a novel and leaves the reader with the same confusion as the characters in the story the...

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... of the novels is intermingled with the first person point of view so that the attitude of both books changed with the attitude of their main characters. For example, when Pip was angry with himself, Dickens writes more aggressively and critically. Likewise, when Henry was with Catherine in Venice, he ... to the reader that both authors seemed to pay close attention to alterations within the mood of the story and the mood of the characters and modify the tone accordingly. Even if the application of tone is similar, the style of authors' works can be very different. ... comments on the si...

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... about Hemingway's writing is his ability to involve the reader and not just lay out everything for them, the reader is allowed to have his/her own perceptions of the characters and the story. I don't think anyone could have put this into words better than Leo Gurko when he said this of Hemingway's characterization and similarly his style "the motive behind ... Leslie A. Fiedler. In my opinion Fiedler feels this way about Hemingway due to her belief that his stories depict a lack of depth and abstract view of women in his women characters. Fiedler writes " in his earlier fiction, Hemingw...

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... with the burden of unplanned pregnancy. Hemingway also uses various hidden examples of symbolism in "Hills Like White Elephants" to concur with the themes and outlooks of the characters. In the beginning, Hemingway distinctly describes the setting, particularly the surrounding scenery of the train station where the entire story takes place. Vegetation and fields of grain cover one side ... of particular themes and symbols through dialogue is essential in further understanding the underlying problems between Jig and The American. As we eavesdrop on the ongoing conversation between the tw...

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... , and his experience is now not one of looking back, but one of reliving. Brimming with iconic people from modernistic society, both in the novel and movie, modernist heroes and characters mentioned in Paris from the two texts were: Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Zelda Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Jules Pascin, Hilaire Belloc, Wyndham Lewis, Salvador Dali, Paul Gauguin, Cole Porter, Georges Braques ... the theme of modernism widely interweaved throughout each of the texts, provides a incredible setting for the comparison and contrast of views, people and the shifting of eras in which the charac...

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... , "Hills like White Elephants", Hemingway relies on the use of symbolism throughout the story to describe a very complex issue that has encountered Jig and The American, the main characters in the story. Though the text can leave many unanswered questions, the dialogue is very detailed in trying to understand what the couple is trying to portray and the reader ... the abortion. "On this side there was no shade and no trees" (Hemingway 236). Again, an aspect of the story's setting helps reinforce the main disagreement between the characters and the agonizing choice they will have to make....

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... the story, Jig orders a large beer, and from that moment, the concept of alcoholism is woven through the plot and it's effects are revealed in the lives of Hemingway's characters. Hemingway's characters believe that drinking alcohol will help them work through, or avoid, difficulties in their lives. For a while they are talking about drinks, and at one point the girl says "That ... ...

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... Sun Also Rises, and Sui Sin Far's "The Story of One White Woman who Married a Chinese,"" suggest that failed masculinity often results from being corrupted by society. Through masculine male characters such as Pedro Romero and Liu Kanghi, these stories reveal that often times, only outsiders to society actually possess masculinity. Ironically, the text suggests these males attain manhood by following ... cousin of Liu Jusong's kids which shows Liu's relative youth, suggesting that he is younger than James. This age gap between James and Liu creates an important difference in their chara...

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... the image of life in the tranquility of nature, seasoned with his own life experiences, Hemingway depicts the inner most struggles of man by revealing the individual conflicts of his characters in his stories (Allen 155). In the short story: "Big Two-Hearted River" Hemingway creates internal conflict in the main character's situations in order to show the aspects of the ... difficult challenges in order to be successful at life. Hemingway was no doubt a man thriving for adventure, entertainment, and enlightenment. Fueled by whiskey and his own harsh life experiences, Hemingway's charact...

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... story contains, that most readers would not consider upon their initial understanding. In "Hills Like White Elephants" there is a commonplace opinion that the implied meaning of the two characters' discussion is about whether the girl should go through with getting an abortion (Link 4). Through this understanding many people assume that every other symbol in the story relates to the ... ...

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