Essays on Ernest Hemingway

 Power and a need for control can drive people despicable things to the people around them especially people who they consider lesser. The short stories “Hills like White Elephants” by Hemingway and “Woman Hollering Creek” by Cisneros provide examples of this as the men in...

The man in the short story ‘Hills Like White Elephants’ uttered the requiem statement ‘That’s the only thing that bothers us. It’s the only thing that’s made us unhappy.’ The instigator of this narrative, Ernest Hemingway is commonly regarded as unornamented for his nature in...

 Humanity is setting so much tension on individuals to achieve success and be someone they can’t be, that people are behaving in any way they can achieve that goal. Men repeatedly use authority and dominance to prove that they are important and that they can...

“They look like white elephants” (Hemingway 475) says a girl, referring to a burden that is never called by its name in the story. Although, the girl and her companion have a conversation through the story, neither of the speakers truly communicates with the other,...

Earnest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises” details the lives of the post war generation, otherwise known as the “lost generation.” The post war generation has suffered a lot during the war, and it has affected the way that they go through life, and the way...

The sea is a beautiful site for those who love nature. It has been a source of creation for those who perceive it as an inspiration. But the creative inspiration has been a subject for a constant transformation over the decade in literature as well...

What ideas and themes in this story can you find in the article “War Medals for Sale” that Hemingway wrote for the Toronto Star? How do both pieces express Hemingway’s attitudes towards bravery and valor in war and life? In Hemingway’s “War Medals for Sale”...

The great American author Ernest Hemingway is well-known for his unique style, which places the greatest significance on what is left unsaid. Among his works, and in his typical fashion, is the short story “Hills Like White Elephants.” This narrative focuses on a couple travelling...

Sometimes the hardest part of going to war is coming home. In the two short stories, “Soldiers Home” by Ernest Hemingway and “Speaking of Courage” by Tim O’Brien, each of the characters Krebs and Berlin show the difficulties it has on a soldier returning home...

In literature, the presence of alcohol can play a fundamental role in guiding the themes and perspectives within a given narrative. The characters in the story “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway, for instance, were heavily intoxicated throughout the work. Because of this, the...

‘A Clean, Well-Lighted Place’ is Hemingway’s paean to a kind of existential skepticism, an investigation of the significance, or deficiency in that department, of presence. It plainly communicates the way of thinking that underlies the Hemingway ordinance, harping on subjects of death, vanity, aimlessness, and...

Ernest Hemingway’s short story “Hills Like White Elephants” is about a young woman and an American man having a discussion about issue of abortion and their struggling relationship. However, it is commonly misunderstood and leaves many readers confused since the word “abortion” is never mentioned...

Life, on the basis of modernist fiction, is meaningless. In a sea full of people, a single person is just a speck. A small, insignificant part of a larger heterogeneous group in which our life has no value. Using his short story “A Clean, Well-Lighted...

In Ali Smith’s “Free Love” while traveling abroad in Amsterdam, a teenage girl is able to explore something she has never been capable of before, her sexual orientation. Whereas, in Ernest Hemingway’s “Mr. and Mrs. Elliot”, to society Cornelia and Hubert seem to be happily...

In Hemingway’s ‘Hills Like White Elephants,’ Jig’s moment of choice takes place in the particular area that will make her think about that choice most carefully. The short story “Hills Like White Elephants,” written by Ernest Hemingway, is about a young couple and the polemic...

Ernest Hemingway is a famous American novelist and an amazing short story writer. The 20th century fiction was firmly affected by his writing style, which was called as iceberg theory: the actuality floats above the water while the connotation occurs below the surface. The majority...

Ernest Hemingway’s ‘Hills Like White Elephants’ dramatizes a perennial issue we have all more than likely encountered: a lack of communication within a relationship. Hemingway narrates this short story through a continuous conversation between the story’s two main characters, the American and Jig. The conflict...

Hemingway was one of the most influential authors of his time, but it is still disputed if he is a real modernist. In this essay I am going to argue that Hemingway is indeed a modernist by analyzing the language, structure, themes and narration of...

Communication in relationships, especially intimate romantic ones, is very vital for the progressive sustenance of the bond between the two parties involved. Ernest Hemmingway’s Hills Like White Elephants presents a narrative of a couple struggling with communication breakdown between them which threatens their relationship and...

In The Garden of Eden, David Bourne retreats into his writing to escape the complications of his life, complications located predominantly in the actions and moods of his young wife, Catherine. He keeps a space all his own in which he writes; a daily regimen...

The works of Ernest Hemingway are often criticized by feminist critics because of the way he writes about women. Hemingway is often described as the “poster boy for archaic masculinity that many would love to see eradicated” (Haske). Many believe that Hemingway embodies patriarchal attitudes...

The feeling of depression and loneliness is a universal emotion among many people. In “A Clean Well-Lighted Place” by Ernest Hemingway, Hemingway tells a short story about an old man who stays late at cafes as a way to cope with depression. To do this,...

In class I heard mention of Ernest Hemingway’s writing style as characterized by being short and dry. While in isolation, the two terms of characterization may serve a neutral meaning, their mention in class however was likened to descriptions that expressed feeling at odds with...

The Lost Generation has faced an incomprehensible amount of pain and devastation caused by the war. Two of the major themes that exist in the novel are the empty lives of individuals and the failure of communication. These two themes are connected in various ways...

In “Soldier’s Home,” Ernest Hemingway makes use of a small-town setting to provide his readers with insight into the troubled, young mind of Harold Krebs. Harold Krebs struggles to adjust to life in Hemingway’s lifeless Oklahoma town shortly after his late return from combat in...

In turn-of-the-century literature, many short stories focus on themes that encompass human nature and society. Two of America’s most prominent turn-of-the-century writers, Kate Chopin and Ernest Hemingway are no exceptions to this rule. Both writers use awe-inspiring symbolism to explain the faults in human nature...

The short stories of Ernest Hemingway are particularly renowned for their ambiguity and brevity, and the collection of short stories titled In Our Time contains many of these powerfully minimalistic stories. One character that appears in two separate stories is Dr. Adams, the father of...

Modern psychology, although a relatively new and largely still-debated scientific field, focuses on not how people do certain things, but why. Most people would agree that modern psychology began with Sigmund Freud in the early 1900s. Freud’s most important work involves his belief in the...

“Hills Like White Elephants,” is a short story, written by author Ernest Hemingway. It is a story about a man and a woman waiting at a train station talking about an issue that they never name. I believe this issue is abortion. In this paper,...

In relationships, countless factors determine the strength of the bond between two people. A major factor is communication. Author Ernest Hemingway utilizes this theme in his short story, “Hills Like White Elephants. ” The story features a couple who appear to be having a conversation;...