Ernest Hemingway Essays

At first glance, the story Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway may seem simple enough.  It appears to be a tale of two people waiting for the train.  However, deeper analysis would reveal that the theme of the story is of great relevance.  Though not directly indicated in the text, the story deals with […]

The Snows of Kilimanjaro – analysis Hemingway’s “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” is a story about a man and his dying, his relationship to his wife, and his recollections of a troubling existence. It is also, more importantly, a story about writing. Ernest Hemingway’s background influenced him to write “The Snows of Kilimanjaro. ” One important […]

Belleau Wood, Soissons, the Champagne, St. Mihiel, and the Argonne were the sites of fierce and bloody fighting. What effect have these battles had on Krebs? Why do you think he won’t talk about them to the people at home? – Page 190 Soldier’s Home is a short story that shows the complexities of the […]

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The prominence of alcoholism in American literature, at least in the first half of the twentieth century, and the relationship between great authors and alcoholism has become somewhat of a literary cliche. Icons such as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, and Jack Kerouac are as famous for their work as they are infamous for […]

“The writing style of Raymond Carver’s short story entitled “Elephant” represent a simplistic, yet strong style of writing that is reminiscent of the great work of Earnest Hemmingway. There are several ways in which the writing style within Elephant harkens back to the stylistics of Hemmingway. Carver always goes straight to the point; like Hemmingway […]

There is no greater tragedy than losing the aim of your existence. Many authors have spent their entire lives focusing on this topic. Among them Ernest Hemingway, one of the greatest American novelists of all time. A great number of his stories is populated by characters caught up in a never-ending search for life’s purpose, […]

Once we knew that literature was about life and criticism was about fiction–and everything was simple. Now we know that fiction is about other fiction, is criticism in fact, or metaphor. And we know that criticism is about the impossibility of anything being about life, really, or even about fiction, or finally about anything. Criticism […]

A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway, is a typical love story. A Romeo and his Juliet placed against the odds. In this novel, Romeo is Frederick Henry and Juliet is Catherine Barkley. Their love affair must survive the obstacles of World War I. The background of war-torn Italy adds to the tragedy of the […]

Word Count: 2210 was one of the greatest writers of the century. He was born at the close of the old century but was able to see the Disorders of the new century. Hemingway was marvelous in bringing about his pictorial effects for his readers even in his drunken state. Hemingway was skilled in the […]

with the vignettes. The collection of stories is amazing, including the much anthologized “Soldiers Home,” as well as “Indian Camp,” “A Very Short Story,” “My Old Man” and the classic “Big Two-Hearted River” parts one and two. “Big Two Hearted River” was a eureka story for Hemingway, who realized that his theory of omission really […]

Ernest Miller Hemingway was born at eight o’clock in the morning on July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois. In the nearly sixty two years of his life that followed he forged a literary reputation unsurpassed in the twentieth century and created a mythological hero in himself that captivated (and at times confounded) not only […]

Ernest Hemingway, alongside Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner and John Steinbeck, is a shining beacon of the American literary scene. He mastered both the novel as well as the short story forms. The scope of this essay is two of his short stories – Hills Like White Elephants and A Clean Well-Lighted Place. The two stories […]

The effect of war on the human psyche. The story shows how wars significantly change a person’s psychological state. Krebs, the story’s protagonist, was dehumanized because of the trauma he experienced fighting as a Marine in the war. He reveals that he has been frightened all the time—soldiers are subjected to constant threat of physical […]

In the novel “A Farewell to Arms”, Author Ernest Hemingway uses many different symbols. One of the most used symbols is nature, and most importantly rain. We shall try how symbols serve different things in the novel : Rain and Water From the beginning up until the very end, rain serves as a powerful symbol […]

Modernism as a movement is an artistic reaction to the conventional art and literature of mid- to late 19th century. World War I introduced advanced technology and the introduction of industrialisation provoked Modernist writers to express their concerns about the changing society and the complexities it of through their works. Urban alienation, the meaning of […]

Ernest Hemingway, Sylvia Plath, and Virginia Woolf – names that ring familiar to individuals that are close to literature, but for those that aren’t, the names might not spark a definite image. Perhaps the only thing that might be known is that each of these talented authors committed suicide after battling mental illness. Despite the […]

The theme in Earnest Hemingway’s A Clean Well-Lighted Place is the same theme that is present in all of his literary works. Themes pertaining to questions of the existence of God, the meaning of the world are evident in his writings. According to Hemingway, man is constantly looking for distractions that will prevent them from […]

Ernest Hemingway’s “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” and Leo Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Ilych” both depict middle-aged men faced with a drawn-out death and no rescue from its inevitability. Both men realize that their lives have been wasted and their motives misplaced, which parallel each author’s views of the meaning of life. The difference comes, […]

From 1914-1918, World War One took place. The war was a traumatizing, bloody occurrence for anyone who was involved. These expatriates were, generally, given the nickname, “The Lost Generation”. This label described the people’s loss of honor and value. Ernest Hemingway, who coined the phrase, dives into the days of the lives of the war […]

O’Brien’s ‘‘Speaking of Courage’’ and Ernest Hemingway’s ‘’Soldier’s Home’’ are about two soldiers who comes home from war uncelebrated. Harold Krebs and Paul Berlin have many similarities and differences. They are both soldiers and each have been fighting a war, Berlin the Vietnam war, Krebs World War 1. Both of the characters get antisocial and […]

Ernest Hemingway was born in a suburb of Chicago called Oak Park on the 21st of July 1899 and died in 1961 (Ernest Hemingway). He was an American author with enormous talents. He wrote many renowned books and was well known for his “minimalist style” (Ellipsis). Through his story Hills Like White Elephants, Hemmingway throws […]