Hemingway :: ESSAYS

Hemingway In maven of the chapters in the book entitled Hemingway the author Leo Lania tries to beg off Hemingway and his work. He explains that a key to understanding Hemingway can be shew in the characters of his heroes and in their beliefs. The leadingcharacter appears in various guises in the different novels and short stories and basically he is always the very(prenominal) type(Lania8).Whether ordinary soldier or general, smuggler or gambler, black or journalist he is a man scarred by experience. He has always been gravely wounded, physically or mentally, any during the war, in the sports argonna, during childhood, in fight for macrocosm. At some time or early(a) something terrible has happened to him and the memory persecutes him. Lania also explains that Hemmingways principal character is around always an American from the Middle West. He is no intellectual further his primitiveness is lonesome(prenominal) a mask for his sensitivity. In order to sweep over lif e he needs a moral code he can follow, a believe in certain rules by which to banknote his behavior(11). N all books, reason nor religion can supply him with this belief. He needs to practical experience. Hemingways world is at war, war either in the literal sense or the ruthless, brutal fight for existence(11). In short stories Hemingway sums up his philosophy of life in one sentence A man can be destroyed but not defeated the speaker is an old bullfighter who although overcomes, does not chuck up the sponge and therefore proves the victor(11). In another story a esthesis boxer provides a similar example. In his latest work, The Old slice and the Sea, the old Cuban fisherman triumphs through tenacity of his fight with the broad fish, although in the end the sharks eat away his catch and deprive him of the support for his indescribable sacrifice. This theme runs continuous through all of Hemingways works. His lookout may be limited and incomplete, his conception of honor and heroes primitive, even childish(12). The part played by women in Hemingways work is significant. That he handles sex without sentimentality that only strict moralists would hold against him. This was not only part of his poetic license but also an important role to our knowledge us. Hemingways lovers have nothing in common either spiritually or intellectually, nor do they seek it(14). They are not partners they are not even enemies. Their relationship is therefore neither exalted nor tragic.