Ernest Hemingway Literature Reviews Samples For Students

Literature: Big Two-Hearted River part I and II

‘Big Two-Hearted River’, a short story by American writer Ernest Hemingway, consisting of two parts, was firstly published in 1925, in the ‘In our time’ edition, which appeared to be the first American collection of his short stories.
Simple on the surface, the plot, however, hides a complicated story of the process of healing through the contact and blending with the nature, the main motive force in the narration.

The story describes a soldier, Nick Adams, who having returned to his native place, after suffering the post-traumatic stress syndrome from the World War I, finds courage and strength to ...

“Nick stood up. He was all right. He looked up the track at the lights of the caboose going out of sight around a curve," are the words Ernest Hemingway’s “The Battler” begins with. From the first sentences, it becomes apparent who is the main character of "The Battler.” Moreover, Nick Adams is a protagonist of a series of Ernest Hemingway stories. For the first time “The Battler” was published in 1925 and it was a part of the collection entitled “In Our Time." In spite of being protagonist, Nick is not the only person this story is about. He is an ...

“Cat in the Rain” by Ernest Hemingway

The title of the story “Cat in the Rain” by Ernest Hemingway carries an inner meaning besides its literal meaning of cat in the rain. Hemingway uses iceberg theory to fix a title for his story. The title has a meaning outwardly and has a deep meaning behind it. Even though, the story says the incident when a cat caught in the rain, the protagonist of the story indirectly refers to the title by confronting the element of confinement that resembles the cat. Thus, the title signifies nothing but the American Woman. “Cat in the Rain has two points of view: full omniscient ...

“Hills Like White Elephants” is one of Ernest Hemingway’s most famous short stories, and for good reason. It is a story that contains timeless themes and deals with a timeless issue: the interaction between men and women. Hemingway took and developed a concept that would come to be known as the “Iceberg” style of short-story writing and created what amounted to an entirely new stylistic type of short story. Hemingway’s use of a variety of literary elements to create dramatic tension and to really underscore the thematic idea of the problems of talking versus communication, particularly between individuals of different genders.
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Introduction

Ernest Hemingway is a well-known American writer of famous poems and short stories. He is the first son and second born child of Dr. Ed and Grace Hemingway. He began writing pieces of art at the age of seventeen as a newspaper writer and became an ambulance volunteer under the Italian army. Eventually, he returns to the United States to continue his career and became a war correspondent. He was sent back to Europe for an assignment to cover the Greek Revolution. He then won the 1954 Noble Prize in literature. Ernest's mother, who has a talent in music, wished his son would ...

In his story “Soldier’s Home,” Ernest Hemingway tells the tale of Krebs, a soldier who fought in World War I and now returns to his hometown. However, he is a transformed man and the life that awaits him upon his return is as complicated as the war. After fighting in the lengthy, wearisome war, all Krebs wishes is to find a safe haven in his home, but he is once again faced with complexity. His mother nags him that he should start leading normal life by finding a job, looking for a wife, and have children. Moreover Krebs “who had been at Belleau ...

Ernest Hemingway, the author of The Sun Also Rises, was part of a generation of writers who made their mark on the literary scene beginning in the 1920’s. The end of the Great War had significant effects on the attitudes of many artists, who felt that the values under which they had been raised no longer mattered, because of the sheer horror of the war. The horrific weapons that were used for the first time during this war, such as mustard gas, and the size of the war, which dragged most of the West’s major powers into conflict, ...

Most people would not take notice of an old man resting on a bridge, especially during wartime when a battle is expected any moment. But the soldier in Hemingway’s short story “Old Man at the Bridge” does notice the old man and listen to what the man has to say. The short story was published in 1938 but the idea and the notes for the story were made by Hemingway in Spain earlier in the 1930s. General Franco, a fascist, had decided to overthrow the government and went to war against the people of Spain so he could take power as a ...

Part I

The healing power of retreating to Nature has long been a natural instinct, and its use has been recorded in some of the oldest written literature. In The Epic of Gilgamesh, for example, the quest that Gilgamesh takes forces him out of his own castle and into a long march into treacherous parts of the world. In the New Testament, Jesus often followed up stressful situations, such as speaking to crowds of thousands, by retreating into Nature to meditate and pray. Nature allows for a sense of inner quiet and calm that are just not available in the hubbub of ordinary life. ...

Classic English literature

Ernest Hemmingway was born in Oak Park Illinois USA in 1899. He was both an author and a journalist and led an adventurous life. Hemmingway was enlisted in the army as an ambulance driver in the First World War but returned after getting seriously wounded in the course of the way. His experiences and the manner in which he led in life are evident of his literary works most of which seem to be adventurous. In Hills like white elephants the adventurous nature of the main characters, the American and his girl friend is evident of Hemmingway’s character (Pustienne ...