... out of a sense that war had 'used up his words'. This was reinforced when a snippet of a retyped Henry James quote was found among the pages of his unfinished manuscript of "A Farewell to Arms." On the snippet, Hemingway prefaced the James quote "The war has used up words " by writing "on the debasement of words by war"."(Bloom 209) However, Trodd notes that "Long ... the war and the wounding - would deeply affect the themes and direction of his future work. Impotence, masculinity, helplessness and lost youth are all prevailing themes in Hemingway's writings. In A Farewell to Arms, Hemi...

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... . The perception of death is eminent in many of his novels along with his own biographical background. Such novels as, Death in the Afternoon is a climax of death, which moves to A Farewell to Arms. Death also by gangs in The Killers, and the man who is dying of Gangrene in The Snows of Kilimanjaro, and of the fear of death in Hills Like White ... the twentieth century. Although he lived a bitter life with most of it reflecting in his works, he still writes a book that is clear and simple to read with much room left in it for critics and interpretation. But it is not difficult to underst...

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... of Spring, which established his name more widely. His international reputation was firmly secured by his next three books: Fiesta (The Sun Also Rises), Men Without Women and A Farewell to Arms. He was passionately involved with bullfighting, big game hunting and deep-sea fishing, and his writing reflected this. He visited Spain during the Civil War and described his experiences in ... at the works of Hemingway, particularly The Old Man and the Sea and Fiesta (The Sun Also Rises), and expose some notions about his style. Already, the research seems to point to the perspective that Heming...

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