Essays on Ernest Hemingway

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…

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…

Ernest Hemingway shows remarkable writing and hidden meaning in his short story, “Hills Like White Elephants”. Not only does this story demonstrate a well-written plot, it also distributes different message to anyone who interprets it. To one reader, the story may just consist of two…

The short story, “A Clean Well-Lighted Place,” written by Ernest Hemingway, is known to be an excellent example of his understanding of humanity. To begin with, this particular short story takes place in a clean and pleasant café. Hemingway introduces three extremely interesting characters with…

Ernest Hemingway was one of the most unique writers of his time. “His literature is free of the extensive use of adjectives…” (Zam). This form of direct writing separated Hemingway from other authors of the time period. The fact that Hemingway worked throughout his life…

Grace Under Pressure in Hemingway’s Life and Literature Ernest Hemingway has an abundance of experience with the idea of courage. As a Red Cross ambulance driver and reporter, Hemingway saw five battlefronts. Returning home after wars, he fought nada – his own nothingness. Hemingway defined…

Isolation is a term in which it is familiar to mean to be secluded from others and or to remain alone or apart from the rest of society. In The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, isolation is a primary theme that defines…

The Old Man and the Sea looks like a Christian illustration from multiple points of view. Its hero, the angler Santiago, appears epitomize Christian temperances, and the story plainly and more than once interfaces his preliminaries adrift to Christ’s misery on the cross. Notwithstanding, a…