Male Sttoicism In Ernest Hemingway's Poem

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Have you ever wondered how or why Ernest Hemingway puts much attention to detail in male stoicism? Throughout many of Ernest Hemingway’s short stories we see that he likes to write stories that display the hardship of a male’s courage such as “A Day’s Wait, The Battler, or The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber. Much of this aspect can be found in Hemingway’s “A Day’s Wait.” This short story is about a young man, named Schatz, who has influenza and misunderstands his temperature reading. He mistakes Fahrenheit to Centigrade, causing him to think that his temperature is highly abnormal and that he is going to die. According to Susan F. Beegel, “Many critics believe that this is all "A Day 's Wait" is about, that the discovery of the boy 's …show more content…

The story is about a young boy named Harry who helped his pirate ship, run by Captain Morgan, fight against an enemy ship. Morgan’s ship was on the verge of being defeated, the helmsmen had been injured so Harry took over the ship and rammed his pirate ship against the enemies causing the enemy ship to sink. While he was steering the ship, he demonstrated heroism by not thinking about getting shot and by facing death. According to Beegel, While Schatzs father was reading this story to him, he thought his son was ignoring him, but in reality Schatz was listening to the story. Schatz was using the story’s display of stoicism as an act of will to keep his feelings hidden and to face death. All of these events showed how Hemingway incorporated deeper meanings about male courage. For as to why he decided to write about this in “A Day’s Wait,” the reason is described by author Norman E.

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