Old Man at the Bridge by Ernest Hemingway. Analysis. “Old Man at the Bridge” was inspired by Hemingway’s travels as a war correspondent during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s. Old Man at the Bridge demonstrates the power of narrative art. It takes a small‚ ordinary detail in a situation and by the art of story-telling transforms it into a powerful story about the tragedy of war. The old man becomes a symbol of the countless civilian victims of war-- those "without politics." The old man is
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Hemingway’s Heroine: A Critical Analysis on “The Hills like White Elephants” Ernest Hemingway‚ one of the most renowned writers of the twentieth century‚ is widely recognized as a “man’s man.” Like in his life‚ his writings presented a masculine world teeming with wars‚ hunting‚ and bull fights. In almost all of Hemingway’s writings‚ readers are introduced to macho‚ hard-hitting men whom star as the narrative’s hero; however‚ in “The Hills of White Elephants” readers meet one of Hemingway’s strongest
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In the short story‚ A Clean Well-Lighted Place‚ by Ernest Hemingway we see conversation between two waiters that work at an all night cafe. While they are working always every night a deaf drunken suicidal man comes to the cafe to countuin to booze leaving the younger waiter in pure anger because he claims to have more important things to go like go home to his wife than to pour more brandy for man. While on the other hand the older waiter is no rush to leave the cafe because they have no reason
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the post WWI years of the United States‚ the artistic world witnessed a phenomenon where by America ’s "best and brightest" writers‚ musicians‚ and artists flocked to Europe in record numbers. "In one of his earliest dispatches from Paris in 1922‚ Ernest Hemingway declared: The scum of Greenwich Village‚ New York‚ has been skimmed off and deposited in large ladlesful on that section of Paris adjacent to the Café Rotonde ’" ("Expatriates (1920s)"). In Hemingway ’s The Sun Also Rises‚ he credits
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An Analysis of the Presence of Alcohol in Ernest Hemingway’s Short Stories Alcohol and Desperation: An Analysis of the Presence of Alcohol in Ernest Hemingway’s Short Stories Throughout the short stories of Ernest Hemingway‚ alcohol inevitably lends its company to situations in which desperation already resides. In an examination of his earlier works‚ such as In Our Time‚ a comparison to later collections reveals the constant presence of alcohol where hopelessness prevails. The
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the United States. The Lost Generation more specifically was a group of writers and artists who lived and worked in Paris or in other parts of Europe during World War I and the Depression. This group included authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ Ernest Hemingway‚ Ezra Pound‚ and T.S. Eliot. This group often had social connections with one another‚ and would even meet to critique one another’s work. Aside from the loss of innocence caused by the first World War‚ the group‚ for the most part‚ shared
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and seen the lamb in the side of Mt. Lamborn? The reason it is called that is because of the sandy slide that resembles a sheep much like the Cantabrian mountains of Spain resemble white elephants. “Hills Like White Elephants” (1927)‚ written by Ernest Hemingway‚ is about a young‚ unmarried couple‚ the American and Jig‚ who are sitting at a train station in Spain‚ apprehensively discussing an abortion for Jig. The story starts with Jig looking at the surrounding hills and talking about different
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In the book The Old Man and the Sea‚ Ernest Hemingway uses many literary devices including metaphors. Hemingway uses the metaphor of the ocean to show life and the role that people play in their lives. Hemingway uses the metaphor of the lions to signify people who live their lives as actively. The tourists in the book represent the people who in observe their lives and who do not take part in their own lives. In this book Ernest Hemingway uses metaphors to reflect his life experiences and opinions
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Ernesto Guevara de Serna was born in Argentina in 1928 into a fairly privileged family. He developed serious asthma at the age of two‚ which would plague him throughout his life. He was home-schooled by his mother‚ Celia de la Serna. It was these early years when he became an eager reader of Marx‚ Engels‚ and Freud which all were all part of his father’s library. He went to secondary school in 1941‚ the Colegio Nacional Dean Funes‚ Cordoba‚ where he excelled in literature and sports. At home
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Cited: Hemingway‚ Ernest. "All modern American. . ." The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations. Ed. Joseph R. Strayer. 1 vol. New York: Columbia University Press‚ 1995. Twain‚ Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York: Pocket‚ 1994.
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