... the makers, indeed, of a New American fiction."" (Robert Penn Warren p 35). It is important to note that his style would not only reflect the times and phases that he went through, but he would have been influenced by and learned from his literary forbears. "Mark Twain, Flaubert, Stendhal, Bach, Turgeniev, Tolstoi, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Andrew Marvell, John Donne, Maupassant, ... Instead, he uses direct and short sentences. The dialogue is brief and the characters rarely speak more than a sentence or two at a time. This minimalist style expresses much through implication and suggestion. Mu...

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... doing, which is an unusual cruel process as Dr. Adams makes no use of an anaesthetic (""No. I haven′t any anaesthetic", his father said" (IC 39)) and operates only with a jack-knife (""Doing a Caesarian with a jack-knife and sewing it up with nine-foot, tapered gut leaders"" (IC 41)). As ... to force his son to this experience (""I′m terribly sorry I brought you along, Nickie,", said his father [...]. "It was an awful mess to put you through."" (IC 41)). This, as well as the experience of the "father as fallible man" (DeFalco 30), which manifests itself in the Dr. Adam′s ... Howe...

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... a ten-round boxing match. Both required a high level of strength and endurance. Hemingway believed that killing a lion or boating a marlin required a man to "pass through a primitive rite of initiation- (Donaldson 78). The process, however painful or frightening, was necessary in order for boys to become men (Donaldson, 1977). Hemingway also ... when he is describing the people at the Luarca. "For Paco . . . the only ones who really existed were the bull fighters- (Hemingway 39). This comment has a double meaning. In one sense, Paco is not concerned with any of the customers in the restau...

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... is a quality that was recognized by a supremely talented wordsmith and the preeminent practitioner of English writing, William Shakespeare. In Act II, Scene II of Hamlet, while delivering a report to the king and queen, Polonius delivers the following: "This business is well ended. My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night ... 's experience with the Kansas City Star and other newspapers, states unequivocally that "the Star's style sheet stressed brevity and compression."(Fishkin 137) Hemingway's induction into the world of writi...

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... dearly. All her relationships occur in a period of months, as Brett either accepts or rejects certain values or traits of each man (she usually rejects him completely, though, after she's through with him). Brett, as a dynamic and self-controlled woman, and her four love interests help demonstrate Hemingway's standard definition of a man and/or masculinity. Each man Brett has a relationship within ... ...

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... , males could still have equally intense emotional bonds, as long as they remained nonsexual. An anxiety towards homosexuality and a feeling of inadequacy towards his own male character followed the soldier through peacetime. In a world changed forever, the male characters in Ernest Hemingway's, The Sun Also Rises, struggle to face their new role as a male, and prove to themselves and others that ... ...

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... ambiguous so that their audiences would be able to argue different meanings depending on what they considered to be most important (Straus 652; Sokel 204). Both Kafka and Hemingway exhibit, through their styles of writing, ambiguous meanings, implied motifs, and similar hidden themes. Hemingway's short story, "Hills Like White Elephants," is a narrative "in which little actually 'happens ... reveal that he is attempting to keep the fact that they are together a secret, supporting the taboo of an affair with a younger girl. The man speaks to the bartender woman through a bead curtai...

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... them to write what they do. While the content and structure vary, the overlying concept of modernism is always present in these writers' stories. Each one masterfully exposes their persona through their writing. Reading was and still is a dominant pastime for civilizations world wide and is constantly evolving in correlation to the occurrences of society of it's time. Fiction being the ... other forms of the arts; modern writers strived to outvie the romantic perspective from literature by conquering fictional literature with modern influence. Some of the ways this was accomplished was ...

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... first wife and moved to Paris. In Paris he continued to write for the Toronto Star as a foreign correspondent. During his stay in Europe through the 1920's, Ernest was influenced by eccentric writers like Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound their literary compression. Hemingway's use of these methods in short ... constructed in his many stories and novels served as a mirror to reflect his beliefs about the world in which he lived- (Relations to Fact Through Fiction 1). Even though he reflected his beliefs in his works he never portrayed himself as the hero. Instead Hemingway created a hero that...

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... the old man; though he has money now (everything) he has lost his wife (nothing). The Gentleman experiences purgatory, in a spiritual sense, on Earth through the waiters. The waiters - young and old - represent a part of the Gentleman. The young waiter represents the Gentleman in his youth by having confidence and ... The old waiter says that the café is a place to come and ease your pain. The two waiters conflict shows that the Gentleman goes through pain and torture (purgatory) while at the café every night drinking. Purgatory is a place or state of temporary suffering or "a place o...

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... Hemingway committed suicide. It is said that he had much bad luck, and was not all of it his own. Many thought that Hemingway's next theme would actually be fear. Through out Hemingway's childhood he remained unhappy. He was only compatible on the surface between his parents. His mother nudged 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 storie...

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