Essays on Ernest Hemingway

The influence of Hemingway’s works can be seen not only in novels and short stories but also in poetry. Without a doubt, his seminal works of verse will be regarded as masterpieces of American literature. Throughout his life, he wrote several poems with insightful messages. Among his unforgettable poems are…

Krebs anticipated that things would be the same at home after he returned from the war. They were, with the exception of one. Looking around, the town was getting older, and the ladies had matured into adult adults. It was not his expectation that he would be the one to…

It is definitely helpful for the Hemingway reader to approach every Hemingway story with an examination of this “iceberg” philosophy, the artistic values that it embodies, and the conclusions about life that it implies. The memories, if read carefully, will track these assumptions; however, delivering them to work in advance…

In the aforementioned short story, Hemingway makes a clear statement of the insignificance of human life. He implies that there is little significance to life and that humans are simply meaningless specks in a vast sea devoid of meaning. He boldly debunks the widely held belief that life is valuable…

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway delves into the author’s challenges as a writer in Paris. Like a diary, the book focuses on a variety of personal accounts and reflections. The title of the book is derived from a religious festival that falls on a different date each year. The…

Indian Camp, written with the aid of Ernest Hemingway, is a small portion of a story about Nick, his father and his uncle George going to the poor Native American town to assist the woman who is in labor. The book does not appear to have a clear theme as…

Masculinity is described as the state or essence of being manly. Historically, manliness was considered to be natural for a man or male (Wedgwood 330). Ernest Hemingway wrote a vast number of novels, one of which is In Our Day, a collection of various stories that focuses on the subject…

Ernest Hemingway’s story Hills Like White Elephants is about an American man and a lady drinking beer outside a station bar while waiting for a train from Barcelona to Madrid. The atmosphere surrounding them is strained as the man attempts to persuade the girl to abort. The lady decides just…

Great authors employ literary instruments and methods in novel ways to illustrate their knowledge of the craft of fiction. Earnest Hemingway’s novel The Old Man and the Sea is notable in the history of American literature as a novel that mastered the use of literary devices and techniques, as well…

On the surface, nothing important happens in Hemingway’s story. The author portrays a wounded combat hero who has seen many damages and losses in lives and property. Nick, the main character in the novel, is similar to a grasshopper and a fish in that he must return to life through…

Ernest Hemingway will still be remembered as a revered heroic writer whose writings have influenced American literature. He was born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1899. Hemingway was an American novelist, short story composer, and poet whose works won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Hemingway started his…

Hemingway’s short stories, Soldier’s Home and Big Two-hearted Rivers are epic works of literature that best illustrate modernity. Aspects of sophisticated poetry, subjectivity, and detachment from social structures will be explored through the examination of these two short stories. It is clear that in both novels, war is fundamental to…