... which can be seen in the essay "What is an Initiation Story?" by Mordecai Marcus (1976), for example. The following report will deal with three selected short stories by Ernest Hemingway focussing on the protagonist Nick Adams, namely ,,Indian Camp", ,,The Battler" and ,,Fathers and Sons". These stories have been selected due to the fact that they give a representative ... the experiences themselves and the revelation of the impact they have upon the central character." (DeFalco 81). This "revelation of the impact", however, is difficult to locate in Hemingway′s short fiction, especial...

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