An Orange in Paris "Oranges- Build is all right "Orange In- Go lack go lack use to her. Cocoa and clear soup and oranges and oat-meal. Whist bottom whist close, whist clothes, woodling. Cocoa and clear soup ... Unfortunately Stein had a bad habit of dropping friends friends dropped who resented the abandonment resenting. But there was always one companion, rather life partner, Alice B. Toklas. When Alice B. Toklas met Gertrude Stein met she heard heard bells ring ringing ringing bells. They went on to have one of the happiest marriages of the 20th century ... final products. Stein and Toklas...

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... their life to be meaningless or feel that life itself is nothing but meaninglessness. "A clean, well- lighted place- by Ernest Hemingway and "Everyday use- by Alice Walker contain some characters that are dealing with or trying to deal with the meaninglessness of life. These characters are; a drunken old man and a girl that ... for himself. Instead, he will only end his life, thus ending his problem but not solving it. Perhaps a good way of escaping his loneliness is to go play "bingo- instead of going to the café or after he is banished from the "clean, well lighted place- for the nigh...

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... control of a situation and be in charge, or a "man's man" as some people would say. However, other people believe that a truly masculine man is someone who is able to let go of a situation and be submissive to someone else. Ernest Hemingway is an expatriate author with very different views on masculinity depending on what work you read. Most of Hemingway's characters ... of both sexes but always had greater difficulty dealing with the men than with the women. Lesbians with whom he was capable of being relatively charming included Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. Stein, who had many c...

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... with, and thereby accentuate, those of another character-(Sparknotes). Pedro Romero is the extreme opposite of all the other characters, he makes us step back and ask why those characters are the way they are. One of Pedro's extremes is his naivete. He is very nave of Brett's love that she has for him ... her flings. Pedro is nave to this and becomes so in love with her that he considers marrying her. "Nothing to tell. He only left yesterday. I made him go Why?..Idont know. It isn't the sort of thing one does. I don't think I hurt him any- (245). Even though Pedro loved Brett, Brett didn...

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... of few Americans enlisted in the Italian army. Even with his fluent dialect it is still evident that he is not a true Italian. Why go and fight someone else's war many people ask? It brings a question to mind that is never really answered in whole in the story. One item that is easy to see, is in ... " (Pg. 11). During this extremely enduring era he appears to have no real worries at all, he is in a play land of some sort. When others ask about the war being dangerous he replies truly believing that his life is in no danger at all. Once again this brings in his feelings of being untouchab...

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... yearn to be close to their fathers. Tiller from "If the River Was Whiskey" wanted to have that close relationship with his father so much that he would go out of his way in order to please his dad or keep a conversation going. On the day that his father got fired, Tiller came home and heard his father ... quot; (Hemingway 75). Nick felt warm and protected in his dad's arm as they sailed through the lake on a chilly night. Only hallway through the trip Nick did dare to ask his father "Where are we going, Dad?" (75). Nick had no idea where they were headed when they left. He trusted his fa...

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... having affairs while engaged to another man. Jake was Brett's person. Whenever she needed something, she contacted him. Jake comforts Brett as she tells him she has let Pedro Romero go and has decided to go back to Mike Campbell, the man to whom she was engaged. It is interesting that she did not call Mike first and ... ask him to come for her, but rather, she called Jake, who was happy to go to her. "Oh, Jake," Brett said, "we could have had such a damned good time together." He replies, "Yes," I said ... she has no idea how much she has hurt him, but he never gives up on her. He cont...

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... 't care about me " (Hemingway,. "Hills Like White Elephants"). It is ironic when the American says that he cares about her, probably because he does not want to go too far with his persuasion or maybe because he does care about her even a little, he also states: "I don't want you to do it if you feel that ... pressure. She states that they could have all this, everything, implying a baby, a family life. He replies that they can have everything, the whole world and can go everywhere, but she says: "No it isn't. And once they take it away, you never get it back"" (Hemingway, Hills Like Whi...

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... a woman he had seen or was seeing. With the money, he got for writing such a magnificent book, Earnest and Mary, his forth and final wife, decided to go to Africa. While in Africa, the Hemingway=s were in two plane crashes. The first while doing some site seeing, causing Mary to have a few fractured ribs, but nothing ... Resource Center, 7). In 1954, he was to be awarded the Nobel Prize, for The Old Man and the Sea, but due to his physical health,was unable to go to Stockholm where he was to receive the award. He did write a speech for it though; John C. Cabot, the US Ambassador to Sweden...

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... the hospital to visit Frederic. Ranildi keeps Frederic's mind off of the war by talking about Frederic's one love, Catherine. "Have you seen Miss Barkley? I will bring her here. I will go now and bring her here."" (pg. 64) Knowing that talking about Catherine to Frederic keeps Frederic's mind clear and completely focused on Catherine, Ranildi uses this as a tactic to keep ... girls that they would chase after in the beginning of the novel. Frederic asks Ranildi, "Tell me about Gorizia. How are the girls?- " I just go to see if there is anything new. I stop by. They all ask for you. It i...

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... ." (516). This display of self pity reflects her disappointment in the man for asking her to have this operation in order to regain his love. The fact that he would ask her to do this lets her realize that she can never love him again. One can infer at the end from her dialog, "Would you please please please please please ... disproportional to the complexity of the story, "I said we could have everything .We can have everything .No, we can't .We can have the whole world .No, we can't .We can go everywhere .No, we can't. It isn't ours anymore .It's ours" (516). Using the contradicting el...

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... American woman compared her life with the cat. She thinks "poor Kitty" out in the rain and no one can take care of him. The husband offered to go outside and get the cat but she decided to get it on her own. The lady walked outside to get the cat. She passed by the front desk, the hotel ... things she likes about the hotel-keeper. However, the times – only twice – her husband gives her positive attention, both times she doesn't respond at all. George the husband ask if she got the cat she replies no. She sat down and started thinking about how much she wanted the "poor Kitty." She i...

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... the story- (pg. 233). What this tells the reader is that Hemingway explained many things through the use of metaphors, leaving only the unknown. The question the reader must then ask is what is the metaphor in "Hills Like White Elephants- and what does it represent? While waiting for a train at a junction somewhere in Spain, the dialogue between the American man ... . Instead she had feelings of guilt and shame, which were clearly expressed by her reaction of looking to the ground. The American made things sound quite simple to her, "I'll go with you and I'll stay with you all the time. ...

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... manhood. Unlike James Carson, Liu Kanghi embodies the traditional qualities of masculinity. Liu's manhood becomes apparent when he symbolically protects Minnie from danger during their first encounter, warning, "If you go any further, lady, you will fall into the water!-(71) Minnie ignores his warnings, so with a "strong arm,"" Liu saves her from the potential danger. Minnie senses Liu's masculinity from ... to "the love feeling- evokes a sense of virginal emotion because if Liu had experienced love before, he probably wouldn't refer to it as the love feeling. Instead, he would simply a...

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... son named Joe. They used to travel a lot to different races. Besides racing, his father used to bet on horse races. Before the race, he used to go into the jockey-room, and ask his jockey colleague's who was going to win the next race. He won great amounts of money this way. Joe's father decided to buy a horse and train it ... ...

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... abortion. The characters have an odd development as the story advances. The American doesn't quickly inquire about the operation, but orders some beers and makes small talk. He then does ask if she would want to keep the baby or not and says either way he wouldn't mind, although he does push for the operation. The girl in all of this ... ...

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... 't you let a man die as comfortably as he can without calling him names? What's the use of slanging me?" "You"re not going to die." "Don't be silly. I"m dying now. Ask those bastards ." He looked over to wear the huge, filthy birds sat, their naked heads sunk in the hunched feathers. A fourth planed down, to run quick-legged and then waddle ... ...

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... its 1929 level. The tension between citizens seeking government action and Hoover's administration came to a head in June 1932. More than 20,000 World War I veterans marched on Washington, D.C., to ask for early payment of government bonuses they had been promised. The government refused and when the crowd wouldn't disperse, federal troops used tear gas and bayonets to evict the men ... ...

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... . When they finally speak to each other and he finds out that she will not got to the Araby bazaar as she wanted to, he makes it his mission to go to the bazaar and get her a souvenir. The girl never asked him to get her a gift from the bazaar, but it could be that this could be a way ... love?" (Hemingway. P.131). Here the girl expresses how she truly feels about not having the abortion, she feels that he will be unhappy if she decides not to go through with the procedure, that his love for her will not be the same as it was before she was pregnant. The girl here is expressing to him th...

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... as the way they were before. She questions herself, but she knows that things will not be the same, because they both have learned stuff about each other as they go through this experience. This leaves her thinking whether or not this is the relationship she wants, and having the procedure may or may not affect the relationship. The procedure being ... , is not the life he wants. At one point with some sarcasm he makes her believe that if she doesn't want to go through with the procedure, she does not have to. In this decision of where they want to go, their sitting at a train station, w...

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... to return to him: " He's so damned nice and he's so awful. He's my sort of thing'" (Hemingway 243). Mike is not complex enough to challenge Brett, but she does go on and decide to accept his simplicity anyway. Furthermore, despite his engagement with Brett, Mike betrays Hemingway's ideal man. Although he is self-reliant, Mike possesses little self-control or ... with another, Brett demonstrates her disregard for the 1920's double standards. Very early in the beginning of the novel, she reveals to Jake that she had invited Robert Cohn to go with her on a trip to San Sebastian. Cohn, a Je...

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... "If you see Nick, dear, will you tell him his mother wants to see him?-, he just "forgets- about telling Nick and allows his son to go hunting with him. Nick learns from this his experiences with his father that women aren't important. Hemingway also uses clues to show that women don't have a significant ... because he wasn't interested but because he was frightened. "His curiosity had been gone for a long time."" In "The Battler- Nick sees first hand how a person can go crazy. After getting thrown off a train, Nick meets two friends named Bugs and Ad. Nick learns upon meeting Ad, that h...

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... was called "Three Shot". In this story Nick, his father, and his Uncle George are on a camping trip. Nick's father and uncle leave one night to go fishing. Nick's father tells him if there is an emergency to shoot three shots into the air, and they would come back right away. Nick is all ... was the first dead person and the first pregnancy Hemingway ever witnessed. It is a known fact that Ernest Hemingway was a great outdoorsman, and he used to go on African safari. This might be because his father always took him and his brothers out camping and hunting. "The Night before Landing" is ...

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... confidence" (201). But in reality he does not. The young waiter is in a hurry to leave the café and the company of the old man: " I want to go home to bed. What is an hour?' More to me than to him' "(201). He "wouldn't want to be that old. An old man is a nasty thing" (200). ... he fear? It was not fear or dread" (202). However, the older waiter has trouble sleeping: "He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it" (202). Once again light is used in the story. But this ... nothing ...

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... himself, who is lonely. The old waiter says, "I am of those who like to stay late at the café. With all those who do not want to go to bed. With all those who need a light for the night- (447). The story takes place in Spain around the time of World War II. The day ... because you have money doesn't mean that you can't be in despair or depressed. The young waiter wants to go home to his wife and he is mad because he never gets to go home early, "I wish he would go home. I never get to bed before three o'clock-(446). The old man asked for another brandy and the ... dignity- (447). The o...

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