Consequences In Hemingway's "A Very Short Story" In Hemingway's "A Very Short Story," there is a very specific idea presented. ... Though one may say Hemingway has many flaws in his writing, one sees he is still criticizing a very important issue through this story. ... Though the wording is very confusing, the reader learns of this from the last sentence of the story when Hemingway writes, "A short time after he contracted gonorrhea from a salesgirl in a loop department store while riding in a taxicab through Lincoln Park"(359). ... Hemingwa...

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The phrase "nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada- in his short story "A Clean Well Lighted Place- both clearly and readily portrays Hemingway's feelings on this subject. ... The primary characters of the old man, and the two waiters: one young and one old, provide both a mouthpiece for Hemingway's intents and the key wards of the conflict that he uses to propel the story. ... Hemingway's trademark style of simple unadorned diction and straightforward conversational dialogue between the participating characters is likely the most easily discerned means that is used to create the...

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In Hemingway's short story, "The Capitol of the World-, the young waiter Paco dies in a tragic accident with a make-believe bull. Paco's obsession with bullfighting becomes clear early on in the story when he is describing the people at the Luarca. ... In the short story, "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber-, Hemingway writes of the importance of human and animal confrontation. The animals in this story are important in that they are the medium through which Francis Macomber realizes his courage. During the course of the story, Macomber transitions from a cowardly boy to a ...

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It is a truly gripping story, told in a lean, hard, athletic narrative prose that, in a way, puts other great works of literature to shame". ... Hemingway's style appealed to the newspaper writer because it was the same type of writing he was used to using - short, sharp and functional. ... (Hemingway, Ernest 785) The fundamental piece of this letter is the characterization of Hemingway as a real artist. ... (Hemingway, Short 192) Kathleen Morgan tells it plainly: "Hemingway ruthlessly pares unnecessary words from his sentences...Hemingway avoids the lengthy simile...Hemingway's wor...

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Ernest Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" can be defined as a twentieth-century Modernist fiction short story because it contains all three of the tenants of modernism. The absence of God is evident in this story through Hemingway's images of Nothing. ... The first tenant of modernism exhibited in Hemingway's short story is the absence of God through the image of Nothing. ... The old man's deafness is a powerful image used in the story... This story is filled with images of despair. ...

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Hemingway's Hills "Hills Like White Elephants" by Earnest Hemingway is a short story about the American and Jig's lack of good communication. ... The story begins with a description of the setting. ... At this point in the story, I thought that Hemingway was just trying to start another tale of his. ... To clarify, Hemingway is showing the reader the boyfriend's supremacy over her. ... Hemingway also uses the actual train station, another part of the setting, as a symbol. ...

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Use short first paragraphs. ... Hemingway's use of these methods in short stories and novels that captured the attention of critics and the public. ... In "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber- Francis is the Hemingway hero because he had courage and faced his fears. ... In The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other stories Hemingway looked back on his African safaris from 1934. ... Beginning with the illustrative story and perhaps this experience, Hemingway added deeper elements from the environment to flesh out Santiago's character and develop the action of the story. ...

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Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899 in Oak Park Illinois. Hemingway was the second child of Dr. ... At the break of World War 1 Hemingway enlisted to the Army. ... The compilation of short stories gathered much attention due to its sharp style and brutal subjects. ... This story of life after the war gathered him fame that would stretch throughout his life. ...

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A Clean Well Lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway The short story "A Clean Well Lighted Place- by Ernest Hemingway focuses on the existential crisis, the search for meaning that faces human beings. ... This theory can be found in this short story and throughout Hemingway's` writings. ... Hemingway tells this short story through a conversation between three characters, two waiters and an old deaf man. ... Knowing more about Hemingway's life gave me a better understanding of this short story. ... Hemingway's` style is very short and to the point. ...

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One particular way that he did this was using short sentences that make the writing easier for readers to understand. ... For example, in the story "The End of Something," Hemingway uses the moon, a common word with a simple denotation, to add depth to the story. ... The story states, "They sat on the blanket without touching each other and watched the moon rise" (Hemingway 34). ... Elliot," Hemingway does not just bluntly state what really is going on in the story. ... This is an example of how Hemingway used the iceberg principle to convey purpose and add depth to the story. ...

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Here he learned with direct simple sentences to get to the heart of the story. ... ("A Life's Story," by Carlos Baker pg. 25) He left his job from the paper and sailed over to Europe that May. ... During his career he wrote the following novels: 1923 Three Stories & Ten Poems (published in Paris) 1924 In our time [sic] (published in Paris) 1925 In Our Time 1926 Torrents of Spring 1926 The Sun Also Rises 1927 Men Without Women 1929 A Farewell to Arms 1932 Death in the Afternoon 1933 Winner Take Nothing 1935 Green Hills of Africa 1937 To Have and Have Not 1938 Th...

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The short story, "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber", focuses on the theme of the misanthropic characterization between the two sexes and the role reversal of husband and wife. ... The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" focuses, among other things, on the misanthropic characterization of the sexes. In the story it is said that Francis Macomber is an adventurer who enjoy hunting, much like Hemingway did when he was a young boy. ... Hemingway, in the story "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber", concentrates on the role reversal of the sexes. ... Wilson is a typical "macho" man...

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Ernest Hemingway's story of a young couple's conversation outside a train station in "Hills Like White Elephants" skillfully provides the reader with a similar sense of mystery and intrigue. ... Watson than Sherlock Homes when it comes to analyzing a short story, one need not be an astute solver of mysteries to see how Hemingway uses description and dialog to show the importance of good communication. ... On this side there was no shade and no trees and the station was- From Hemingway's description, the reader learns there are two primary characters in the story, an American ...

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Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. ... Even though Hemingway deserves to be noted as a man who opened critics' eyes to new ways of writing while incorporating his unique writing style and personal adventures into each of his stories, the work of Fitzgerald will never be forgotten. ... He captured the idea of the great American Dream and the idea of true love and his audience went crazy for his stories. ... He had no writer's block and was producing stories faster than most. Soon after being in Paris, he continued to publish short stories, poems, and novels (Guion). ...

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There are many badly written stories that are comprised of nothing. ... One of these stories is Ernest Hemingway's A Clean, Well-Lighted Place. ... During the time that the story was written and published, Hemingway was living in Paris and traveling throughout Europe. ... Hemingway generally subscribed to this theory. ... And, it is this feeling that Hemingway captures clearly in his short story A Clean, Well-Lighted Place....

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In Earnest Hemingway's three short stories, In Another Country, Hills Like White Elephants, and The Snows of Kilimanjaro,"" Hemingway communicates the same underlying message, loneliness and separation. ... These strong adjectives create the gloomy tone that continues throughout the stories. ... In/out imagery is depicted throughout the short story as well. ... This story also displays a contrast in setting. ... Hemingway himself must have been a very unhappy man and presumably had many terrible experiences in his own life to write such depressing stories. ...

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In the short story "The short happy life of Francis Macomber" by Ernest Hemingway the author seems to describe his problems with his wife and woman in general. ... In the story the main charter's wife, Margot Macomber, is described as a "bitchy woman" and that's exactly what Hemingway thinks about woman. ... In the beginning of the story, we learn that Francis has tried to shoot a lion but failed, running from the wounded animal in fear. ... Hemingway doesn't tell us why she does this, allowing the reader to come to our own conclusions. ... Hemingway tries to show the world with...

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I will begin with a short biography on Mr. ... Ernest Hemingway was a very criticized author whether it was good or bad still he managed to overcome it all and write some of the most interesting novels and short stories that still impact literature to this day. ... This is a short sentence that can summarize the many positive criticisms of Ernest Hemingway that was commented by Swedish Academy after he won the Nobel Prize. ... Hemingway's earlier novels and short stories were largely praised for their unique style. ... (Gurko) Ernest Hemingway is a very controversial writer due to t...

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Ernest Hemingway's "Hills like White Elephants" is no doubt one of Hemingway's most superb work. ... Although Ernest Hemingway uses unclear and ambiguous language throughout this short story, it becomes visible what its true meaning is by analyzing the symbols such as the title or the power struggle between those two lovers. ... The white elephant in Hemingway's story is the unborn fetus. ... There is an abundance of symbols in this short story that surround the conversation of the American and the girl. ... It is truly a well written and deep story which shows one o...

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More then any other talk I can call to mind, it is alive with the rhythms and idioms, the pauses and suspensions and innuendoes and short hands of living speech." ... His stories are not to be easily read and understood. ... Hemingway was a firm believer in keeping writing "short and to the point." ... In The Sun Also Rises the story ends having gone nowhere. ... The story his told with grace and excellence. ...

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The short story, "Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway, and the novella, "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka, both contain covert alternate meanings that emanate from the authors' literary style preferences. ... This is particularly the case in Hemingway's short story because of his creation of the literary style called, "The Iceberg Theory". ... The phrase, "like white elephants" is used in the short story five times. ... The short story introduces the two people as "The American and the girl with him," which leaves a very ...

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An Analysis of Ernest Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" "Hills Like White Elephants", by Ernest Hemingway, is a short story published in 1927, which is set at a train station in Spain. ... Although this short story crosses timelines to become relevant to both the early twentieth century and today, Hemingway uses setting and symbolism throughout the story to show that making a decision on whether to have an abortion or not is indeed a difficult decision to make. ... Our first encounter with Hemingway's symbolism is in the title, "Hills Like White Elephants", which offers...

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The short story "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," written by Ernest Hemingway, is about two waiters in a Spanish café who are discussing their last customer of the night, an elderly and lonely drunk man. Hemingway uses a writing style that is straightforward and rarely incorporates adjectives, but his story is loaded with symbolism. ... The waiter went away" (Hemingway). Hemingway does not waste words in this story. ... Light is the opposite of darkness, a major theme in the story. ...

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In this short story, "Hills like White Elephants", Hemingway relies on the use of symbolism throughout the story to describe a very complex issue that has encountered Jig and The American, the main characters in the story. ... First published in 1927, the short-story elaborates on how the couple is traveling through the European country of Spain; Jig unexpectedly finds out she is pregnant and is plagued with the decision to have an abortion. ... Hemingway incorporates the setting of the story to emphasize whether or not the couple will go through with the abortion. ... In conclusion,...

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In the short story "Hills Like White Elephants," Ernest Hemingway uses many literary elements to create the tone of the story. ... Hemingway uses the dialogue of a man and woman to slowly reveal an argument over abortion. ... The story seems to be set in the 1920's. ... Hemingway shows this fact by referencing all the labels on their luggage from the hotels they had spent nights at. ... Hemingway never actually uses the word abortion in his story; he just uses the symbolism and the dialogue to get this point out. ...

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