Essays on Ernest Hemingway

“The fastest way to kill something special, is to compare it to something else.” – Unknown James Joyce, an Irish novelist and Ernest Hemingway, an American novelist are two of the most important authors in the 20th century, being representatives of modernism. James Joyce’s works…

The concept of expatriate simply means “a person who lives outside their native country” (Oxford University Press, 2019), but overtime the concept widened its meanings and it comprises notions like exile, identity, self or otherness. Therefore, the concept is quite ambiguous and it may cause…

In the late 19th and early 20th and after World War I, violence of various kinds has set as one of the major themes of literary modernist’s novels/short stories. Each modernist author has his own way of how he handles this theme of violence, and…

“Fiesta; The Sun Also Rises” was published in 1926 by Ernest Hemingway. Hemmingway was around 25 when the book was published and being a part of the generation who were a part of World War One, he is associated with the “Lost Generation”. The Lost…

Steeped in history dating back to the Romans Andalucía’s largest white town sits proudly El Tajo gorge a huge cut in the mountains shaped by the Río Guadalevín. Hugely popular with tourists and a very doable day trip from the resorts on the Costa del…

My Musings One of the bookish resolutions that I took in 2018 was to read 10 classics. My progress wasn’t noteworthy but I am determined to change it in the coming years. I picked up The Old Man and the Sea because I am participating…

The movie Little Boy directed by Alejandro Monteverde in 2015 is about a small child whose father leaves to war, which leaves the little boy to fend for himself. When his father is gone he gets bullied and continues to worry about his father and…

Hemingway’s short story “Hills Like White Elephants,” depicts a crucial moment in a couple’s relationship. When the woman discovers that she is pregnant, the couple is torn between getting an abortion and keeping the baby. Throughout the story they fail to come to a decision…

Ernest Hemingway’s novel, A Farewell to Arms, first published in 1929, largely takes place on the Italian front during World War I. This novel follows Frederic Henry, an American lieutenant serving in the ambulance corps of the Italian army. Ernest Hemingway invites us into the…

The Sun Also Rises and Tender Is the Night are two books written between the 20s and 30s. Even if the story is different they have common characteristics. This essay will analyse the anxiety of the characters through the two books. The Sun Also Rises…