Essays on Despair

During my first term in graduate school, I took a class that required a role-play between therapist and patient. When it came time to sign up for my role-play as a “therapist”, I decided to choose one of the last slots so that I would…

Final Examination Within the 1933 short story “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”, by Earnest Hemingway, an obvious theme can be observed. The idea of despair and insomnia are initially present, but it is the theme of nihilism that truly climaxes the story. Within the very brief,…

“Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada as it is in nada”(Hemingway 83-84). This is the mantra of the central character in Ernest Hemingway’s “A clean well lighted place” and it perfectly exemplifies the tone…