James Carson, from "The Story of One White Woman,"" and Jake Barnes, from The Sun Also Rises, fail to embody the traditional characteristics of masculinity. While James lacks honor ... to traditional standards of masculinity "ideals such as honor, duty, and heterosexuality' "Ernest Hemingway's The 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 ... text suggests these males attain manhood by following their intuiti...

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... in "The Metamorphosis" was translated from German into English and many have speculated, including the translator, in the 2014 edition, Susan Bernofsky, that the translation impacts the story because of a lack of English terminology to directly covey Kafka's ideas (Kafka 122). Kafka's and Hemingway's works are similar in that they both stray from the grander narrative. ... Elephants," and the unintended translational impact that occurred in "The Metamorphosis," combined with Kafka's ambiguous literary style, both provide explanations to the deeper meanings that each story contains, that ...

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... what society deems acceptable and appropriate. We see similar patterns in displaying the ignorance and limitations of a romantic perspective in Henry James' "Turn of the Screw". In this story the protagonist, similar to Emma Bovary, is a young unexperienced girl inspired by her own "romantic" mindset and lack of exposition to realistic life interactions, and circumstances. ... 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 themselves. Another distinguishing fac...

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... of unplanned pregnancy. Many different themes such as one's choices and the consequences that follow, doubt and ambiguity, as well as the relationship between man and woman develop throughout the story. Hemingway also exhibits various examples of symbolism including the attention to detail description of the scenery surrounding the station, the white hills in the background, and the train station itself ... " 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 whe...

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... outcome for both of them, but as they become more indecisive they cannot seem to come to an agreement. Hemingway incorporates the setting of the story to emphasize whether or not the couple will go through with 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. According to Jig, this side represents the ... longed for. She has become divided between her love and her child and she is unable to make the decisi...

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... willingness to editorialize and elaborate. The 'paratactic syntax' is "not a matter of being incapable of cause-and-effect reasoning and abstraction but of being unwilling to present either in this story"." (Wells 131) This syntax often involves what Doody interprets as polysyndeton - the use of several conjunctions in quick succession. "By doing this, Hemingway maintains the simple, unpretentious nature of ... - even fetishizes - the simplicity of a fishing trip, the pureness of quiet interaction with nature, the simplicity of a life without thought, without people, perhaps even without...

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... within American Society. Similarly, Russell Banks uses an argument about this same issue to expose the mistreatment of Minorities within society in his short story "Black Man and White Woman in Dark Green Rowboat". Both of these authors creatively use disagreements about abortion to reveal some saddening truths about our ... women as a valuable gift American society could be a better more accepting place for everyone. Russell Banks reveals another Elephant in American society through his short story "Black Man and White Woman in a Dark Green Rowboat". Like Hemingway, Banks uses abortion ...

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... what was seen as a child and how they were brought up. Keeping this in mind, I read Indian Camp for the first time. After completing the story, my hopes of the kind of man Nick Adams would grow to be began to dwindle because whether you are only a little child or even a grown ... young Nick, enough so that he is fast asleep upon the quick return of his father and uncle. The next day, as chronicled in the story Indian Camp, Nick is taken with his father to perform surgery on an Indian woman who has difficulty in delivering her baby. While many may argue ... answers on death. Regardless of...

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... the same attention to detail as a primary character. At the beginning of 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 ... the man burst out "It's an awfully simple operation, Jig, it's not really and operation at all."(Hemingway 97) They've not talked about a procedure previously in the story, this is just erupting out of him, and it has to do with what is really bothering him. He keeps on insisting that is not that big of a deal ... their separate ways. To answer the question ...

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... of the situations in which he found himself. These transformations are essential to the underlying themes in each novel, but the themes themselves are different. Dickens' story showed how Pip, despite his best attempts to convert himself into a gentleman was still, at heart, a poor boy from Kent. It shows us that ... theme in their works. Love also played an intricate part in both novels, but in distinctive manners. Pip was in love with Estella throughout the story, and his quest for her love was the impetus behind many of his gentlemanly endeavors. The book revolved around the pursuit ...

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... , 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 struggle for success in life through experiences in nature ... , the battle for success in every day life still exists (Wilson 215). Even though Nick gains pleasure from outdoor challenges, which the reader can assume from the beginning of the story, it is the respons...

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... the text. Such a work, as ambiguous and cryptic as it may seem, conveys that the exposure 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 ... ...

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... 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 Hemingway's heroic figures ... ...

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