The Enduring Hero in the Works of Ernest Hemingway
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The Enduring Hero in the Works of Ernest Hemingway
In his vast collection of masterpieces, Ernest Hemingway uses his own characteristics to set a moral code for his various heroes. This sportsman like code is based on the admiration of the physical virtues of courage and endurance. While not necessary for sustaining society, the code conforms the characters to one set of characteristics (McCaffery 237). One key element of this code is stoic endurance in the face of calamity. Hemingway's code heroes posses a grin-and-bear it attitude even in the most dire of tragedies and bounce back seemingly unaffected (McCaffery 237). Often Hemingway tests the moral of the character in confrontations with death, which frequently directs his plots to violent situations. The very idea of living in Hemingway's imaginative world is a test of endurance, but through his cod heroes he portrays the idea that perseverance through tragedy will result in triumph.
From an early age Hemingway was a rugged, enduring boy with an insatiable desire for action. "The father gave him his first fishing rod when Ernest was not yet three years old an his first shotgun when he was ten"(McCaffery 45). In his school years he had a strong competitive spirit and a burning wish to excel. At the age of fourteen, Hemingway persuaded his father to pay for boxing lessons. On the first day he sparred with young A'Hearn, a middleweight training for his next fight, and Hemingway was quickly knocked down with a bloody nose. Hemingway responded to the question of why he fought by saying "I wasn't that scared" (McCaffery 45). After graduation he was rejected from the army because of an injured eye. He endured this minor setback and signed up as a Red Cross a...
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In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how ernest hemingway uses his own characteristics to set a moral code for his various heroes. this sportsmanlike code is based on the admiration of the physical virtues of courage and endurance.
- Explains that hemingway was a rugged, enduring boy with an insatiable desire for action. he persuaded his father to pay for boxing lessons at the age of fourteen.
- Analyzes how hemingway uses the hero's guilt, frustration, and acts of destruction as tools to test his endurance. harry triumphs through his steadfast refusal to give in emotionally to death.
- Analyzes how jack, a true code hero, perseveres through the loss and focuses instead on making something out of it. he survives until the eleventh round.
- Analyzes how hemingway's novel a farewell to arms is about realizing and understanding the true nature of the world through violent tragedies of love and war.
- Analyzes how catherine, the true code hero, endures humiliation and death to satisfy henry mentally and physically.
- Asks, "you won't do our things with another girl. or say the same things, will you?"
- Analyzes how in our time is a collection of two sets of short stories written by hemingway in his twenties.
- Explains mccaffery, john, ernest hemingway: the man and his works. cooper square publishers, 1969.
- Analyzes how catherine suppresses her emotions because henry is not prepared to talk about her death. catherine's martyrdom causes henry to realize the inadequacy of their roles.
- Analyzes how hemingway exemplifies this belief by putting many of his code heroes in to fierce catastrophes that test their integrity.
- Explains baker, carlos, hemingway the writer as artist. walter, caterway, catherine's role in a farewell
- Describes geismar, maxwell, gellens, jay, and prentice-hall's interpretations of a farewell to arms.
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- Explains that ernest hemingway was one of these influential authors. he expressed his intense mental and emotional insecurities through subtle metaphors that bluntly showed problems with commitment to women and proving his masculinity to others.
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- Analyzes how ernest's mother, grace, treated him as a girl, and made him into man by his father, created an odd hatred/fear of women, especially towards his mother.
- Narrates how ernest's interest in writing and his distinct straight-to-the-point style of writing was first introduced here. becoming known for his talented writing soon got him his first job as a cub reporter
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- Narrates how hemingway fell in love with his nurse, agnes von kurowsky, and wrote a farewell to arms. he married elizabeth hadley richardson in paris in 1926.
- Narrates how hemingway fell in love with the island's charms and the fact that it felt like living in another country. in 1929, his novel a farewell to arms was published.
- Explains that hemingway and his wife pauline went on a three-month safari to africa in 1933, inspired by theodore roosevelt's legendary hunts.
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- Analyzes how hemingway fell in love with martha gellhorn during his adventures in havana, cuba, and wrote in his home there. although he didn't live a traditional lifestyle, his works were revised and published after his death.
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- Explains that hemingway was born in oak park, illinois on july 21st, 1899 to his parents, clarence and grace. his relationship with his mother was rocky at best, and may explain his focus on appearing masculine later in life.
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- Explains that ernest served as an ambulance driver in italy during world war i. his experiences were used as a blueprint for his acclaimed novel, a farewell to arms.
- Narrates how hemingway fell in love with a red cross nurse, agnes von kurowsky, but they never met again. this made him insecure and detrimental to his relationships.
- Narrates how hemingway went on a fishing and camping trip with friends to michigan's upper peninsula. the trip inspired the short story, big two-hearted river.
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- Explains that hemingway traveled to spain in 1937 to cover the spanish civil war for the north american newspaper alliance. the civil war caused a marital war in his household as well.
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- Describes gerogiannis, nicholas, and ernest hemingway's dictionary of literary biography.
- Analyzes how ernest miller hemingway's writings reflected his trouble with relating to women and his tendency to treat them as objects.
- Narrates how hemingway's staccato writing style was planted after he resigned from the star and attempted to enlist in the army, but was rejected because of poor vision.
- Analyzes how hemingway exaggerated his heroism in retelling the events of the war, and how he became a close literary friend with fitzgerald.
- Narrates how the hemingways returned to the united states briefly in 1923 so they could resume concentrating on his writing and reconstruct the works he had lost. they met pauline pfeiffer, a fashion editor for vogue magazine.
- Narrates how hemingway divorced hadley and married pauline in 1928. after his father killed himself, he published his 1932 spanish bullfighting dissertation, death in the afternoon.
- Narrates how hemingway met martha gellhorn in key west, where they had a secret affair, before the franco-led rebels won the war, and he wrote for whom the bell tolls.
- Narrates how hemingway's story, the old man in the sea, won him the pulitzer prize.
- Narrates how hemingway and mary vacationed in east africa in 1954. the plane crashed and he broke through the door to escape. he was unable to attend the ceremonies in sweden.
- Cites nelson, raymond s. ernest hemingway: life, work, and criticism.
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In this essay, the author
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- Explains that hemingway and pfeiffer met at a mutual friend's house in paris and shared deep feelings towards each other.
- Analyzes how hemingway's marriage with martha gellhorn was the unhappiest out of his four marriages.
- Analyzes how hemingway's depiction of women in his literary works was influenced and inspired by agnes von kurowsky, the u.s. red cross nurse.
- Analyzes how caroline moorhead discusses her book on martha gellhorn. oliver, charles m. ernest hemingway a to z: the essential reference to the life and work.
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In this essay, the author
- Narrates how hemingway met agnes hannah von kurowsky, a twenty-six-year-old american nurse, and they declared their love for each other.
- Analyzes how the analysis of world war i provides an essential framework for our understanding of the entire twentieth century. hemingway put most of his time on writing, reading, fishing and visiting friends.
- Analyzes how hemingway wrote a farewell to arms based on his life experience during world war i.
- Concludes that world destroys the lives of people who are strong, because it makes them stronger. ernest hemingway and frederic henry had a lot in common.
- Analyzes how hemingway demonstrated his emotions through characters and convinced the readers through his writings.
- Explains that hemingway's experience in world war i inspired him to write a farewell to arms, which depicts the real-life experience of an ambulance driver who falls in love with a nurse during the war.
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In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how leo lania tries to explain hemingway and his work in one of the chapters in the book entitled "hem
- Analyzes how hemingway's main character is an american from the middle west. he needs a moral code and practical experience to master life.
- Analyzes how hemingway used the sun also rises as a source for a farewell to arms.
- Explains adair, william, "the sun also rises: the source of a farewell to arms." university press of kentucky, 1999.
- Explains that hemingway's views of honor and heroes are limited and childish, and the role played by women in his work is significant.
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