... maturity. Therefore, they are suitable for investigation of constituents and characteristics of stories of initiation. Furthermore, their different topics as well as arrangements offer a broad range of material for investigation. As the analysis will focus on the definition of stories of initiation and the appliance of these criteria on Hemingway′s short fiction, other aspects of interpretation (e.g. the often mentioned autobiographical content or stylistic ... have to be neglected. They should, however, be kept in mind as they are important constituents of Hemingway′s work. 2. What ...

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... have even courted their defeat; and certainly they have maintained, even in the practical defeat, an ideal of themselves - some definition of how a man should behave, formulated or unformulated - by which they have lived. They represent some notion of a code, some notion of honor, that makes a man a man, and that distinguishes him from people who merely follow their random impulses and who are ... works Hemingway constantly had underlying homosexual plots that can be examined. Hemingway seemed very negative about this submissive masculinity that seemed more feminine than masculine. In s...

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