... him toward music, preferably church music. His father put a fishing rod in his hand at the age of three and a rifle at ten. In Hemingway's first novel In Our Time, shows of Hemingway's own struggle with his parents through the eyes of Nick Adams. For example, in one of Hemingway's short stories from In Our Time it reads: "Your mother wants you to come and see ... his mother with music, or his father with fishing and hunting. (Baker, p.29) In the novel of, In Our Time, Hemingway creates the character of Nick Adams in order to depict himself. Nick's youth is wild and free, just as Hemingw...

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