Hemingway Sexism

Hemingway uses age, racism, and sexism as common themes in his short stories. Nick and his father go to an Indian Camp with shanties. His father delivers a baby and Nick witnesses it. In Indian Camp and The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife by Ernest Hemingway, Hemingway uses the themes of racism, coming of age, and sexism to show Nick’s transition into adulthood. Hemingway’s writing is based on his life. Hemingway was born and lived in the time of World War l and World War ll. He has mother and girlfriend issues, like how he is only interested in older women. He lived with his parents and siblings when he was very young, “Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois, on July 21, 1899” (Encyclopedia of World Biography). First he did not go to college and he decided to be a reporter. Then he joined the army which was a huge part of his life. His life was difficult yet successful. Hemingway writes about his life through short stories. Nick learns about serious things like death, “‘Is dying hard Daddy?’ ‘No, I think it’s pretty easy, Nick. It all depends’”(Indian Camp). Hemingway deals with a lot of death in his life, “Hemingway’s life would take a tragic turn shortly after, when his father committed
“In the upper bunk was her husband”(Indian Camp). The husband chooses the top bunk because of masculinity and he thinks guys are better, they are sexist, “‘Indian Camp’, like several of the vignettes in In Our Time, centers on suffering and specifically female suffering” (Texas Studies in Literature and Language). Hemingway suffered with depression and had mother/girlfriend issues. This quote shows sexism because it shows how a lot of women suffer in some of Hemingway’s short stories. The men are being treated fairly while on the other hand, women are treated unfairly. This influences Nick because it teaches him to become sexist too with all the bad influences around him. Sexism is a huge theme in his