... 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 had a deep appreciation for bullfighting. He was fascinated by the combination of art and sport. Bullfighters, according to Hemingway, were masters ... full of illusions,"" and he did not have time to "lose any of them- (Hemingway 51). Paco was also disillusioned in his admiration for the tall waiter. Paco admired him for his revolutionary ideas, even though the waiter felt bulls were a curse and...

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... (Hemingway might have taken issue with this metaphor - he preferred to think of writing as a workman's craft: "Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over". (Hemingway, Short 192) Kathleen Morgan tells it plainly: "Hemingway ruthlessly pares unnecessary words from his sentences...Hemingway avoids the lengthy simile...Hemingway's working vocabulary is colloquial and economical...Hemingway limits himself for ... in the Hotel Montoya, in Pamplona"." (Hemingway, Sun 216) This is an anecdote, simply told, that reveals without intentional malice, the deep cruelty of ...

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... experiences. The year Hemingway graduated he quickly secured a job with the Kansas City Star. There he received a writing style sheet that instructed: "Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English."" (Parshall 1). These were rules he never forgot to incorporate into his works to get to the heart of a ... 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 stories and novels that captured the attention of critics and the public. In the 1930's, he turned to ...

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... he went. During his famous post-World War I life in Paris as an expatriate he encountered homosexual people 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 conversations with him about homosexuality, seemed to think ... were generally mischievous, made by people who knew how angrily Hemingway would defend his manly, heterosexual virtue. The second, less masculine hero I mentioned before is seen in several of Hemingway's...

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... shattered their faith in traditional values such as love, bravery, manhood and womanhood. Without these values to rely on, their existence became aimless, meaningless and unfulfilling. It is these men and women that Hemingway portrays in Fiesta. Before the novel opens, Hemingway quotes Stein as well as a Biblical passage. The passage contrasts the transient nature of human generations with the eternal survival ... constantly moving from one place to another in an endless procession of social appointments, always drinking copious amounts of alcohol. They never seem to have conversations o...

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... known as the "Hemingway hero," an ideal character readily accepted by American readers as a "man's man". In The Sun Also Rises, four different men are contrasted and compared in the world of the 1920s as they engage in some form of relationship with Lady Brett Ashley, a near-nymphomaniac Englishwoman who ... plans to marry her fiancé for superficial reasons, completely ruins one man emotionally and spiritually, separates from another to preserve the idea of their short-lived affair and to avoid self- destruction, and denies and disgraces the only man whom she loves dearly. All her relat...

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... Hemingway portrayed his characters as heroes, but they all in someway dealt with the perception of death. Hemingway himself said, "My favorite characters are men who deal in death and accept its risks". To understand why Hemingway wrote about death in his writings, one must try to understand how the events ... Hemingway's recurrent themes is heroism and death, but within all his novels he manages to convey all that is needed to make each and every short story stand out and remembered as though it were a 500 page masterpiece. Heroism: Triumph over crushing adversity is the heart of heroi...

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... known as the "Hemingway hero", an ideal character readily accepted by American readers as a "man's man". In The Sun Also Rises, four different men are compared and contrasted as they engage in some form of relationship with Lady Brett Ashley, a near-nymphomaniac Englishwoman who indulges in her passion for ... Brett plans to marry her fiancee for superficial reasons, completely ruins one man emotionally and spiritually, separates from another to preserve the idea of their short-lived affair and to avoid self-destruction, and denies and disgraces the only man whom she loves most dearly. Al...

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... known as the "Hemingway hero", an ideal character readily accepted by American readers as a "man's man". In The Sun Also Rises, four different men are compared and contrasted as they engage in some form of relationship with Lady Brett Ashley, a near-nymphomaniac Englishwoman who indulges in her passion for ... Brett plans to marry her fiancee for superficial reasons, completely ruins one man emotionally and spiritually, separates from another to preserve the idea of their short-lived affair and to avoid self-destruction, and denies and disgraces the only man whom she loves most dearly. Al...

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... the narrative and characters to transform a personal experiences into a realistic fictional story. Stephen Crane is a prime example of this approach in his short story "The Open Boat". This story was inspired from his personal experience of his survival of in a shipwreck tragedy he experienced ... relationships are never as we hope they would be. Hemingway's precise technique is proven at last as he leaves the ending of this short story open ended leaving the question of whether Margot intentionally killed Macomber or not. Given the implications made by Wilson, and Margot's ... his cons...

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... material for investigation. As the analysis will focus on the definition of stories of initiation and the appliance of these criteria on Hemingway′s short fiction, other aspects of interpretation (e.g. the often mentioned autobiographical content or stylistic devices which are characteristic for Hemingway′s iceberg-principle) have to ... of the initiatory experience. This includes the loss of original innocence concerning the protagonist1 and is often compared to the biblical Fall of Men (Freese 97). Furthermore, this approach generally stresses the aspect of duality in the initiatio...

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... 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'" to the protagonists, which means that almost all of the substance emerges ... as contrasting Gregor's in the novella, out of respect for his own sister, Ottilie (Nervi, "Kafka's Life"). Similarly, Hemingway's background also relates the hidden meaning in his short story, "Hills Like White E...

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... a reason for living within themselves. The philosophy forces man to make choices for himself, on the premise that nothing is preordained, there is no fate. Men must find a truth in themselves, a truth that they must be able to live for. Existentialism is in harsh contrast to a belief in a higher power ... or a god. "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" is a story by Ernest Hemingway about men in successive stages in the philosophy of existentialism, revealing ultimately how the philosophy will fail them. Nothingness is a condition man is faced with when his life ... it and never felt it but he...

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