... American volunteer is sent behind enemy lines to destroy a crucial bridge (Bloom, Short stories, 86). Hemingway's later works in the 1950s include Across The River and Into The Trees (1950), and The Old Man and The Sea, published first in Life magazine in 1952 which sold out five million copies within a week. It told a story of an Old Cuban fisherman named Santiago who finally catches a giant marlin after weeks of not catching anything ... . As he returns to the harbor, the sharks eat the fish, strike to his boat. Before the year was out, the novel was translated into Chinese, Danish, Du...

• Word Count: 1210
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... out his life. He often portrayed war, sports, drinking, and traveling in his works, which were also themes in his personal life. Hemingway created many highly acclaimed works such as The Sun Also Rises (1926), A Farwell to Arms (1929), To Have and Have Not (1937), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), Across the River and into the Trees (1950), and the Old Man and the Sea (1952). Most every novel of his revolves around themes ... of war, athletics, and other elements of a man's life. Although Hemingway's works do not excite me I do ... ...

• Word Count: 586
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working." (120) As in "The Sun Also Rises," "A Well Lighted Place" also is set in an empty reality. Hemingway suggests that life has no meaning and that man is an insignificant speck in a great sea of nothingness. The older waiter makes this idea as clear as he can when he says, "It ... "-effectively wiping out both God and the idea of heaven in one sentence. Not everyone is aware of the nothingness, however. For example, the younger waiter hurtles through his life hastily and happily, unaware of any reason why he should lament. For t...

• Word Count: 969
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography