Essays on Ernest Hemingway

Merriam-Webster defines the word heroism as “heroic conduct especially as exhibited in fulfilling a high purpose or attaining a noble end” (“Heroism”). However, Ernest Hemingway provides his own idea of heroism in what is called the “Hemingway Code”. This guide includes many different character traits....

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway is full of symbolic ingredients that make the story a great read, however these symbols can be deciphered only after very careful reading. Every object that surrounds Santiago has substantial and complex symbolic meaning. Hemingway spent...

The story, The Old Man and The Sea, begins with an old man, whose name is not known, who has fished his whole life. The old man unluckily has a streak of not catching any fish for 85 days. The parents of his apprentice came...

“A man can be destroyed but never defeated”. That was what Ernest Hemingway, one of the most known writers in the twentieth century said in his extended nights at a pub. And it’s specifically the slogan of his novel The old Man and the sea....

A Farewell to Arms, written by Ernest Hemingway, is a well known war love story. In fact, it could be compared to Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet as well as various other well known romance novels. Hemingway utilizes two strong, elaborate main characters, the lovers Henry...

Ernest Miller Hemingway, born in 1899, was a Nobel prize-winner American writer started his career as a journalist in a newspaper office in Kansas City at the age of 17. A year after he volunteered to fill in as a Red Cross ambulance driver in...

Earnest Hemingway was an American Nobel Prize-winning writer who lived in the early 20th century. He served in World War I which inspired a few of his books including A Farewell to Arms. Due to a possible genetic disease, in his final years Hemingway’s brain...